the Thoreau Log.
14 July 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  A writer who does not speak out of a full experience uses torpid words, wooden or lifeless words, such words as “humanitary,” which have a paralysis in their tails . . .

  Saw to-day for the first time this season fleets of yellow butterflies dispersing before us, [as] we rode along berrying on the Walden road . . .

(Journal, 4:225-228)

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