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In my 1950s-1960s education, David Henry Thoreau (1817-1862) was an integral part of learning what America was and what it stands for as it had been for many generations.  We all got a real education, grade by grade, repeating any grade year that was not testably learned.  The two most prominent essayists of early 19th Century America were Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau (his reversal pen name).

Perhaps the most evocative phrase was written by Thoreau in the…..

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