the Thoreau Log.
23 December 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Some savage tribes must share the experience of the lower animals in their relation to man. With what thoughts must the Esquimau manufacture his knife from the rusty hoop of a cask drifted to his shores, not a natural but an artificial product, the work of man’s hands . . .

  P.M.—Surveying for Cyrus Jarvis.

  Snows more or less all day, making an inch or two.

(Journal, 9:194-195)

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