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WALDEN & ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
Contents
WALDEN
1. Economy
2. Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
3. Reading
4. Sounds
5. Solitude
6. Visitors
7. The Bean-Field
8. The Village
9. The Ponds
10. Baker Farm
11. Higher Laws
12. Brute Neighbors
13. House-Warming
14. Inhabitants and Winter Visitors
15. Winter Animals
16. The Pond in Winter
17. Spring
18. Conclusion
-- On the Duty of Civil Disobedience --
Economy

When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods,
a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden
Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I
lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again.
I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the notice of my readers if very particular
inquiries had not been made by my townsmen concerning my mode of life, which some
would call impertinent, though they do not appear to me at all impertinent, but,
considering the circumstances, very natural and pertinent. Some have asked what I got to
eat; if I did not feel lonesome; if I was not afraid; and the like. Others have been curious
to learn what portion of my income I devoted to charitable purposes; and some, who have
large families, how many poor children I maintained. I will therefore ask those of my
readers who feel no particular interest in me to pardon me if I undertake to answer some
of these questions in this book. In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it
will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not
remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so
much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am
confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover, I, on my side,
require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not
merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his
kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant
land to me. Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for
the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none
will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it
fits.
I would fain say something, not so much concerning the Chinese and Sandwich Islanders
as you who read these pages, who are said to live in New England; something about your
condition, especially your outward condition or circumstances in this world, in this town,
what it is, whether it is necessary that it be as bad as it is, whether it cannot be improved
as well as not. I have travelled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and
offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand
remarkable