Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. He was educated at Harvard University. In the late 1830s and early 1840s, Thoreau taught school and tutored in Concord and on Straten Island, New York. In 1845, he moved to a cabin at Walden Pond, near Concord. He stayed there until 1847.

Thoreau made several very interesting statements in the first chapter of his book entitled Walden. The first statement that I came across while reading was, "The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

" In the paragraph that contained this statement, Thoreau was talking about how it is good for civilization to accept modern inventions as advantages. However, I do not believe this statement to be completely and utterly true. I believe that the first part of the statement, that man is more experienced, is true. In the United States, the so-called “civilized man” is more experienced than the so-called “savage.” We have had experiences with new technology advances, with war, and with many other things that the “savage” did not experience.

In conclusion, I believe that these two philosophical authors had some very odd ideas. They were also very boring. Just from reading their works I do not believe that they were true Christians. Most of Thoreau and Emerson’s ideas did not reflect a very Christian philosophy at all.

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