Saturday, May 10, 2014

 

Man and Beast

Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, letter to Annie Adams Fields (May 1862):
I suppose he [Thoreau] believed that beasts and reptiles, birds and fishes fulfilled their ends, and that man generally came short. So he respected the one and avoided the other.



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