Emerson and Thoreau were the quintessential purveyors of simplicity. Through their transcendental beliefs they felt that each person should life simply and live in-tune with nature. They believed that we should live our lives free of commitment and searching for "the truth." In our modern society you can't walk into a shopping mall without being bombarded with logos for expensive clothes, computers that run at 50 megahertz faster than the ones we already have, and gadgets that we can't live without. It's hard to live simply in a world with so many fun things to play with.
Although it is agreeable that living simply is a great character builder, if Thoreau had his wa
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