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...THOREAU...
...from "the land of steady habits''-though Uncle Toby sometimes likes to eat peas with his knife. A bit skeptical, he is nevertheless no cynic. He does not kindle, like a Boston Abolitionist, at one touch of the match. Nor would he blandly go to jail, like Thoreau, rather than pay taxes to a conscienceless Government. But if you provoke the Connecticut Yankee-or Wilbur Cross-you will discover that he is no softy, and he usually gets...
...belief that "every man is as good as his neighbor, if not better"; will support "the ideas of Jefferson as against the more aristocratic and monarchical conceptions drawn from Europe"; and will have for his prophets not Marx, Engels and Lenin (to whom he will be respectful) but Thoreau and Emerson; and for his poet, Whitman...
Bolstered by the complete works of Henry David Thoreau, newly bought, Novelist Sinclair Lewis abandoned his Manhattan duplex for rustic life in his home state, Minnesota. He told a reporter that a reading of Thoreau would explain all, but admitted: "I don't mean I want to go around in a sheet like Gandhi." Next fall, he will do some public debating on rusticity, said...
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk—Henry Thoreau...