Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau, an American writer, philosopher and transcendentalist, was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on July 12, 1817. His friend and fellow author Ralph Waldo Emerson spoke of Thoreau’s character saying, “He was bred to no profession; he never married; he lived alone; he never went to church; he never voted; he refused to pay a tax to the state; he ate no flesh; he drank no wine; he never knew the use of tobacco; and, though a naturalist, he used neither trap nor gun” (Compton’s Encyclopedia 174) Although he wrote many essays, books, poems, translations, and journals, he is best known for writing Walden. He was also a great thinker and many times his ideas left him in the minority. Although many disagreed with him, Henry David Thoreau expressed his beliefs and ideas through his actions and words. He gave lectures on his views of slavery and openly supported the abolitionist John Brown. Also, in “Civil Disobedience,” one of his many essays, he speaks against the useless and corrupt government. He was also strongly against the Mexican War, saying it was only an expansion of slavery. Though speaking against these things is the beginning, he took the next step by refusing to participate in the American
a still more perfect and glorious State, which I have also imagined, but not “Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get what advantages the nature of the rocks and trees and beasts” (Thoreau 132). “Transcendentalism” Compton’s Enyclopedia. Elmhurst, Illinois: Success Publishing Group, LTD., 2001.
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