"Thoreau was a man of his own kind. Many things may be said of him, favorable and unfa-vorable, but this must surely be said first, -that, taken for all in all, he was like nobody else. Taken for all in all, be it remarked. Other men have des-pised common sense; other men have chosen to be poor, and, as between physical comfort and better things, have made light of physical com-fort; other men, whether to their credit or discred-it, have held and...