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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Thoreau, Henry David

Thoreau, Henry David
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Walden: Chapters 9 - 18

Chapter XI: Higher Laws

This chapter treats of sensuality, of the animal instinct in men.
Thoreau's thoughts have been turned down these paths by glimpsing a woodchuck
running across his path as he came home at night from fishing. He reflects
that he "felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted
to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that
wildness which he represented." He goes on to observe that he finds dual
urges within himself, nor is he distressed by them. "I found in ...

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