A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
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forget her cunning."
"By the waters of Babylon there we sat down, and we wept when we remembered Zion." I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches. It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ. I know that some will have hard thoughts of me, when they hear their Christ named beside my Buddha, yet I am sure that I am willing they should love their Christ more than my Buddha, for the love is the main thing, and I like him too. "God is the letter Ku, as well as Khu." Why need Christians be still intolerant and superstitious? The simple-minded sailors were unwilling to cast overboard Jonah at his own request.-- "Where is this love become in later age? Alas! 'tis gone in endless pilgrimage From hence, and never to return, I doubt, Till revolution wheel those times about." One man says,-- "The world's a popular disease, that reigns Within the froward heart and frantic brains Of poor distempered mortals." Another, that |
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