Springfield and Concord (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Springfield and Concord It was at the opening of the present year, during my visit to Concord (Mass), that the thought occurred to me of bringing together as some record of a visit, so memorable to myself, the three names that especially focus the significance of that nursery of political liberty and spiritual freedom, I mean the names of Lincoln, Emerson and Thoreau. To some it may appear that I have attached too much importance to the name of Thoreau. No doubt much we find in Thoreau as an exponent of modern individualism is to be found in stronger relief and more original colour in Walt Whitman. It is also true that Thoreau was even more indebted to Emerson for his general intellectual outlook and its artistic expression than to Whitman, whose influence, such as it was, touched him later. But without concurring, for one moment, with the suggestion of his English biographer that Thoreau was really the greater man of the two, it is clear he was as much an original force as either of these his two compeers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.