Aug. 9, 1854: Thoreau Warns, 'The Railroad Rides on Us': Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden, or, Life in the Woods. His distillation of a year living in relative seclusion offers deep insights not just into the natural world and humanity's place in it, but how that relationship was being impacted — and degraded — by the Industrial Revolution. It remains to this day a trenchant criticism of the excesses of technology.
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