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thoreau-walden_007-1854	thoreau	thoreau-walden_007-1854	1854		.txt	text/plain	4813	184	73	Men of one idea, like a hen with one chicken, and that a duckling; men of a thousand ideas, and unkempt heads, like those hens which are made to take charge of a hundred chickens, all in pursuit of one bug, a score of them lost in every morning's dew- and become frizzled and mangy in consequence; men of ideas instead of legs, a sort of intellectual centipede that made you crawl all over. Yet I never, by any manoeuvring, could get him to take the spiritual view of things; the highest that he appeared to conceive of was a simple expediency, such as you might expect an animal to appreciate; and this, practically, is true of most men.	cache/thoreau-walden_007-1854.txt	txt/thoreau-walden_007-1854.txt