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Essay Archive - Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
He spent his life in voluntary poverty, enthralled by the study of nature. Two years, in the prime of his life, were spent living in a shack in the woods near a pond. Who would choose a life like this? Henry David Thoreau did, and he enjoyed it. Thoreau wasn’t just a regular every day philosopher, but instead was a great transcendentalist. He believed in spiritual life of solitude, the simplicity that every man should live by, and materialism. Thoreau’s stay was a noble experiment in three ways. First, Thoreau was intent upon resisting the debilitating effects of the industrial re....
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