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11/25/2015

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Andrew Corsa

I enjoyed your post.

Your tentative description of Thoreau as a "less humane . . . lover of humanity" was striking.

I wonder how your description might relate to the following quote from Thoreau's Walden:

"No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature, which holds its life by the same tenure that he does. The hare in its extremity cries like a child. I warn you, mothers, that my sympathies do not always make the usual phil-anthropic distinctions.”

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