id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt thoreau-walden_003-1854 thoreau thoreau-walden_003-1854 1854 .txt text/plain 6165 223 72 Men think that it is essential that the Nation have commerce, and export ice, and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty miles an hour, without a doubt, whether they do or not; but whether we should live like baboons or like men, is a little uncertain. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to glorify God and enjoy him forever. cache/thoreau-walden_003-1854.txt txt/thoreau-walden_003-1854.txt