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The Triumph of Nationalism/The House Dividing
Topic: Culture of the Common ManTopic: Cult of DomesticityTopic: ReligionTopic: ExpansionTopic: America in 1850
Topic: Religion
Overview of Triumph of Nationalism
Resource Menu: Religion
Text 1. Bryant/Freneau
Text 2. John Mayfield
Text 3. Alexis de Tocqueville
Text 4. Frederick Douglass
Text 5. George Fitzhugh
Text 6. Charles Colcock Jones
Text 7. Henry David Thoreau
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Text 8. Mormons


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7.  Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, 1854; second half of Ch. 2: "Where I Lived and What I Lived For"

Henry David Thoreau
Link
https://eserver.org/thoreau/walden02.html

Note: Read the second half of the chapter, beginning with "Every morning was a cheerful invitation" (about halfway down the page).


Online
Source


The Thoreau Reader
Site creator: Richard Lenat


Printing

If you choose to print this text:
-   Copy/paste the second half of the chapter
    into a document file (no need to reformat).
    Print the document.
-   Length: 7 pages (with annotations).

Supplemental
sites


Brief biography of Thoreau, from the Library of Congress (longer biography available on The Thoreau Reader)

Transcendentalists and modern environmentalism, discussed in an essay from the National Humanities Center's TeacherServe®:
"The Puritan Origins of the American Wilderness Movement"






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