id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt thoreau-walden_004-1854 thoreau thoreau-walden_004-1854 1854 .txt text/plain 3812 136 66 The solitary hired man on a farm in the outskirts of Concord, who has had his second birth and peculiar religious experience, and is driven as he believes into the silent gravity and exclusiveness by his faith, may think it is not true; but Zoroaster, thousands of years ago, travelled the same road and had the same experience; but he, being wise, knew it to be universal, and treated his neighbors accordingly, and is even said to have invented and established worship among men. I aspire to be acquainted with wiser men than this our Concord soil has produced, whose names are hardly known here. cache/thoreau-walden_004-1854.txt txt/thoreau-walden_004-1854.txt