Walden Chapter 11: Higher Laws

Walden Chapter 11: Higher Laws

1. Thoreau once had the urge to kill and eat an animal when it crossed his path.

   • He found a spiritual and a savage life in himself.
   • He believes that eating animal is unclean and does not really feed the soul spirtually.
     • Makes people less human and more cruel.

2. The food a man eats is not what destroys him, it is how much he consumes of it.

   • He believes that the savage part of a man overcomes the spiritual part of him.
     • Work makes virtue while laziness makes ignorance.