Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering for a great while at the eaves of an old church.
— Henry David Thoreau Modern

Civil disobedience, Walden

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Walden

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1854

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Controversial

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/205/205-h/205-h.htm

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