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Show Henry D. Thoreau. . 1 c:lavcry of an l' J·n <1 5 . '\V c arc m ' r e fi gnr('-hr~ <1s twn, am • < I' 1 ·t · Th<· <'111':-<e 1 11- with li \·erR in the plaec o leat ::-.. U. l)On a lll "1' . f 'lol . whith at len crt l 1 tl Ill. 1 c mng<!~ H' wor:- p- 1::; the wors up o H. ~, 0 ., 1 · • • • rr him elf. a.rHl the New J~~n glaiH Pr IS )cr Jnlo a tone Hl1noc ' . ~ .1 1, tcr n ~ the Hinuoo. Tlu~ man wa~ an Just '\S much an H o .l • .. · • . . r . l r l 10t . ct np even a poht1tal graven C '(' 'ptwn, JOI lC (I( 1 • iuuwe between him and Ius Go<l. . . . n 1 1 , A l'hurc 1 t m~~ can I1 (·' V ' r have done wllh cxcommtlntu\l- ino- Chn. st w 1 .1 't .· ·ls 1 Away with your bro:Hl an<l flat ll e 1 exis , . , c1 1o\ ll'Cl l e~, t11 1<1 yotlt' n·"' J'l'OW an<l tall c),ureh 's ! 1akc a ::;tr p forwnr<l, and 1nvcnt a new sty 1c o{ . ou t -1.w us e . Invent a salt that will s:wc you, and def'eml our nostnls. The modc·rn Christian i: a man who has cOJ:::;ented t.o . ny all t1 e prayers 1·1 1 tl 1e liturrhr y ' lll'OYi<kd yon will 1. ·t b11n go stra.irrht to bed and lcrp quietly nf'tcrwanl. All hi~ p.r:ty<•rs b . 0 ·t1 " Now I lay me (lown to .1ccp," and l1e 1s fore\'cr cgm w1 1 < • "1 looking forward to 1hc time whc n he ~hal~ go to llls . 011{f rest." lie Ita, consented to perform ccrtam ol(l .establi ;..;hcll ] •1• too 'lr' r r a f.·t~hion but he docs noL wtsh to hc:u· C lUl'l JC, , , < 1 l. • ' ' ' of any ncw-fangleu ones ; he doc::;n't wish to have any :-up-plementary articles add 'd to the contnwt, to fit it to t1:c pr ·sent time. lie ·hows the white>: of his eyes on the Sahbnth, and the blacks all the ref-it of the week. The evil i.' not merely a stagnation of l>loo(l, hut a stagnation of spi.rit. l\iany, no doubt, arc well dispo. cd, but slugg~::;h by constllution anti by habit, and lllcy cannot conceive of a mnn. who is actuatc<l by higher motive~ than th y nrc. Accon1mgly they pronounce this man insnnr, for they know that th ey could never act a he llocs, aR long a ' they were thcmsch es. vV e dream of foreign countries, of oth"r limes and r :H' C::i of men plaeinrr them at a di stance in history or :::pace; hut ' b • let some significant event like the present orcnr in onr mHl;;t, and we discover, ofLcn, this distmwe ant1 this str~w ge n rss between uR and our ncm·c .. t ncighborl-4. T/t('y nrc our Atts· trias, and Chin~\S, and South Sea h lanus. Our crowded soel- Henry D. I'horeau. 27 ('fy b<'<'O tne.· wc·ll spacc<l all :~t oncr, ·l<':ln and ltand:;om to tllP <'}<',a <' ity of' m:tg-nifi cent <li s tance~. \Ye dis<·on•r wlty it was that we n 'YCr got l><'yond com pliment. and surf~t t<'s with th em b ·fore; we become aw:uc or n' many vcr.:-;t~ lwtwern w ; :111cl them a. t11ere arc l><'twcen a wandering Tartar and a ChiU('S(' town. The thought f'ul man uecom ·s a. hermit in the th o ro u ~ld:tn•s of' tl1e markct-plac . ] mpa ~saul e ~c· a. · ~ u<l< l<'nly fin(l their lev •l hetw •en us, or dumb . tcppes ~ tret c h tl1 c·mse lv ·s out there. It i · the diff' ·rence of co n :-~ titu t i o n , of' intelligc·nec, an<l f:tith, and nvt stn•:nn and mountain::;, that m:tk c· the true and im pa. :::al>le boundaries betw ·en inui Yitluals and u<'l wc<'n states. None but the like-minded can come plenipotentiary to our con rt. I re<lll all the nc,vspap ·rs I coul<l g(•t within a wc<•k after Hlis•('\'<' nl , and I do not rPmemlJ<'r in til •m a .- ingle 'XJHTSsion of' Rympathy Cor the. e men. I have since ec•n one noble . l:.tlcnwnt, in a Ho~to n paper, not ditorial. Some voluminous r-;l,cet::; dc<·idcd not to print the full report of Brown's wonl:-5 to th · cxc1u ion of o' ther matter. It was a· if' a pub-lisher . houlc1 reject the manu. cript oC the New T ·~lament, nnd print \Vilson's last !'peech. The same journal wlti ·h contained this pregnant new., was chiefly fillPd, in parallel columns, with the r eports of' the political cony ntions that were being hchl. Bnt the dcsc<:nt to th em was too Rteep. They ~ho111d have been spa1·e(l this contrast, been print 'tl in an extra at 1 •asl. To turn from the voices and deeds of ( 1arn •:;;t men to the racl.:li'ng of political convention:-:! ! OlTiee~ e ·kcr · and , pcech-makers, who do 11ot so much a lny an lt oiw:::.t egg, but wear their bre:t.'IS bare upon nn egg of chnlk! Th<'ir gr at game i · the game of trnwf', or rather that univcr:-: al aborigi nal . game of' the platter, at. which the Inclinn ~ crietl lwb 1mb/ ExchH1c tl1c ·r po rt ~ of r eligion. and politic: ll con,·pnt ions, nnd publi It the words of a living m:tn. But 1 obj ·ct not so much to what they have omit tecl, a: to wlw.t they have inser ted. Even the Liberator called It "a |
