David Simple

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    I lived in Judæa eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries!
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit.... No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by man, would make it healthy and a paradise; as the laws of man’s own constitution but wait to be obeyed, to restore him to health and happiness.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)