Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written.
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IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.Edward Carpenter
In the summer of '84 I went again to the United States, my chief object again being to see Whitman - though I had also friends to visit.
Edward Carpenter
Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.
Edward Carpenter
My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.
Edward Carpenter
When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!
Edward Carpenter
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.
Edward Carpenter
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