I went to the woods
because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the
essential facts of life, and see if I could
not learn what it had to
teach, and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not
lived. I did not wish to live what was
not life, living is so
dear; nor did I wish to practice resigna-
tion, unless it was quite
necessary. I wanted to live deep and
82 THE WRITINGS OF THOREAU
suck out all the marrow of
life, to live so sturdily and
Spartan-like as to put to
rout all that was not life, to cut a
broad swath and shave
close, to drive life into a corner, and
reduce it to its lowest
terms, and, if it proved to be mean,
why then to get the whole
and genuine meanness of it, and
publish its meanness to
the world; or if it were sublime, to
know it by experience, and
be able to give a true account
of it in my next
excursion. For most men, it appears to me,
are in a strange
uncertainty about it, whether it is of the
devil or of God, and have
somewhat hastily concluded that
it is the chief end of man
here to "glorify God and enjoy him
forever/ 7
Still we live meanly, like
ants; though the fable tells us
that
we were long ago changed into men¡
ምንም አስተያየቶች የሉም:
አስተያየት ይለጥፉ