Walden X 40: Essays on Thoreau

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recto runningfoot 1 Walden x 40 o n e 2 verso runningfoot recto runningfoot 3 i n d i a n a u n i v e r s i t y p r e s s Bloomington and Indianapolis Walden x 40 e s s a y s o n t h o r e a u r o b e r t b . r a y 4 verso runningfoot This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, Indiana 47404–3797 USA www.iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931© 2012 by Robert Beverley Ray All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging -in-Publication Data Ray, Robert B. (Robert Beverley), date. Walden x 40 : essays on Thoreau / Robert B. Ray p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-253-35686-4 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-253-22354-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Thoreau, Henry David, 1817–1862. Walden. 2. Thoreau, Henry David, 1817–1862—Homes and haunts—Massachusetts —Walden Woods. 3. Walden Woods (Mass.). I. Title. PS3048.R39 2011 818'.303—dc22 2011021189 1 2 3 4 5 17 16 15 14 13 12 recto runningfoot 5 T o H e l e n , M a r g a r e t , a n d E l e a n o r 6 verso runningfoot To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school. . . . It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. —Thoreau, Walden I have at all times written my works with my whole body and my whole life; I don’t know any purely “intellectual problems.” —Nietzsche ...