the Thoreau Log.
1 April 1841. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  In reading a work on agriculture, I skip the author’s moral reflections, and the words “Providence” and “He” scattered along the page, to come at the profitable level of what he has to say . . . My author shows he has dealt in corn and turnips and can worship God with the hoe and spade, but spare me his morality.
(Journal, 1:243)

Concord Academy closes due to the failing health of Thoreau and, in particular, his brother John, who is suffering from tuberculosis (The Days of Henry Thoreau (1965), 87).

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