Thoreau in "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" Chapter 2, Walden.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Thoreauvian demographics, 1854
“The
millions are awake enough for physical labor, but only one in a million is
awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred
millions to a poetic and divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never
yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?”
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