Thoreau's "quiet desperation" dated?

now loud distraction?

Bible rule?

Bibliocracy -- rule under the Bible
Bibliocrat -- one who believes in rule by the Bible

Emerson vs Goethe

"American Scholar" vs Faust

Mirrored

Whether religions, philosophies, histories,...

man rarely recognizes he sees himself.

Goethe's' trips to Italy, on Mobile Bay

it is not only the river one cannot step into twice that is not the same