the Thoreau Log.
13 December 1851. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  While surveying to-day, saw much mountain laurel for this neighborhood in Mason’s pasture, just over the line in Carlisle . . .

  When I think of the Carlisle man whom I saw to-day and the filthiness of his house, I am reminded that there are all degrees of barbarism, even in this so-called civilized community. Carlisle, too, belongs to the Nineteenth Century.

  Saw Perez Blood in his frock,—a stuttering, sure, unpretending man, who does not speak without thinking, does not guess.

(Journal, 3:136-137)

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