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Tag Archives: Ellery Channing
thoreau at walden: domestic arrangements
…At the end of his first eight months at the pond he found that he had spent a total of $8.74 for food- an average of twenty-seven cents a week. Clothing for the same period cost him only $8.40, and … Continue reading
thoreau: KISS
Although his cabin was only a mile and a half from home, and his sister brought him cookies freshly baked, Henry David Thoreau did find a wilderness by Walden and time to develop a sturdy, individualist’s philosophy… …In the fall … Continue reading
thoreau: voluntary simplicity
…Thoreau was in no haste to move in. Once the frame was up, he did the remaining carpentry slowly, living in the meantime with his parents and walking back and forth to the pond each day, carrying his lunch wrapped … Continue reading
thoreau: raise the roof
…Thoreau began his work at the pond with a borrowed axe. It probably belonged to Bronson Alcott, although after its fame spread it was claimed by both Emerson and Channing. But from whoever he obtained it, he returned it later, … Continue reading
thoreau: to drive life into a corner
…Although his cabin was only a mile and a half from home, and his sister brought him freshly baked cookies, Henry David Thoreau did find a wilderness by Walden and time to develop a sturdy, individualist’s philosophy… …Then in 1845, … Continue reading
you can flee but you can’t hide
The first utopia was the Garden of Eden, but since no person knew what it was like, anyone may create it in their own image, the reason being an unhappiness with the world as it exists, pushing efforts to imagine … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albert Brisbane, Brook Farm, Charles Fourier, Ellery Channing, George Ripley, Jeremy Bentham, John Humphrey Noyes, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oneida Community, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Social Reform Unity, William Heath
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