Excerpts from H.D. Thoreau’s journals
This is a collection of excerpts from the journals of Henry David Thoreau
concerning law, government, man in society, war, economics, duty, and
conscience. It is divided into thirteen web pages:
(一)
(二)
(三)
(四)
(五)
(六)
(七)
(八)
(九)
(十)
(11)
(12)
(13)
This collection of journal excerpts is also available as a book:
The Price of Freedom: Political philosophy from Thoreau’s journals.
These are based on the journals transcribed by Bradford Torrey and Francis
H. Allen in their The
Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
(906), the online journal transcripts at
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau,
and on the “lost” volume transcribed by Perry Miller in
Consciousness in Concord ().
Footnotes are mine unless otherwise noted. I mostly stuck by the
transcriptions used in the sources mentioned above, occasionally omitting
brackets when they were used to insert some obvious missing article or
end-quote, or when the intended addition seemed unnecessary. I sometimes used
ellipses to omit material without distinguishing these from ellipses used by
the editors of the transcribed journals or by Thoreau himself.
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