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It was at the opening of the present year, during my visit to Concord (Mass), that the thought occurred to me of bringing together as some record of a visit, so memorable to myself, the three names that especially focus the significance of that nursery of political liberty and spiritual freedom, I mean the names of Lincoln, Emerson and Thoreau. To some it may appear that I have attached too much importance to the name of Thoreau. No doubt much we find in Thoreau as an exponent of modern individualism is to be found in stronger relief and more original colour in Walt Whitman. It is also true that Thoreau was even more indebted to Emerson for his general intellectual outlook and its artistic expression than to Whitman, whose influence, such as it was, touched him later. But without concurring, for one moment, with the suggestion of his English biographer that Thoreau was really the greater man of the two, it is clear he was as much an original force as either of these his two compeers.
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