Walden - Henry David Thoreau - Books - Independently Published - 9798680230695 - September 29, 2020
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Henry David Thoreau
Walden

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Book Excerpt: ..., if not before. It is said that Deucalion and Pyrrha created men by throwing stones over their heads behind them: --Inde genus durum sumus, experiensque laborum, Et documenta damus qua simus origine nati. Or, as Raleigh rhymes it in his sonorous way, --"From thence our kind hard-hearted is, enduring pain and care, Approving that our bodies of a stony nature are."So much for a blind obedience to a blundering oracle, throwing the stones over their heads behind them, and not seeing where they fell. Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Their fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and tremble too much for that. Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the ma

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released September 29, 2020
ISBN13 9798680230695
Publishers Independently Published
Pages 240
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 13 mm   ·   326 g
Language English  

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