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A 6 page paper which discusses Thoreau and Emerson,
illustrating that their ideas were incredibly similar, though their perspectives different.
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They were two individuals who looked at life from a more spiritual and natural perspective, offering their readers a very powerful look at reality. In this respect they both shared
a great deal of the same ideas and same views. However, they also, while instituting thoughts of their own, possessed different perspectives. In the following paper we illustrate how each
was very unique, yet how each maintained some of the same ideals which connect the two men deeply. Thoreau Thoreau was not only a essayist, but a poet
a practical philosopher and is perhaps "best-known for his autobiographical story of life in the woods, Walden" He is often regarded as one of the most prominent figures of "the
leading personalities in New England Transcendentalism. He wrote tirelessly but earned from his books and journalism little" (Anonymous Henry D(avid) Thoreau (1817-1862) thoreau.htm). In addition, his work titled "Civil Disobedience,"
published in 1849, "influenced Gandhi in his passive resistance campaigns, Martin Luther King, Jr., and at one time the politics of the British Labour Party" (Anonymous Henry D(avid) Thoreau (1817-1862)
thoreau.htm). He was born "in Concord, Massachusetts, which was center of his life, although he spent several years in his childhood in the neighboring towns and later elsewhere. Thoreau studied
at Concord Academy (1828-33), and at Harvard University, graduating in 1837" (Anonymous Henry D(avid) Thoreau (1817-1862) thoreau.htm). It was in 1845 that he went to live in the woods,
producing the work known as "Walden; or, Life in the Woods." It details a two year period of his life wherein he "retired from the town to live alone at
Walden Pond" (Anonymous Henry D(avid) Thoreau (1817-1862) thoreau.htm). In his work "Civil Disobedience," he argued that man should refuse to obey laws which are unjust: "I think that we should
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