...matters. Hence even when they claim to furnish their readers with what Thoreau described in Walden as "a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say This is, and no mistake," that "bottom" or "reality," as Thoreau characteristically added in further elaboration and pragmatist...

...through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance . . . through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom"— all the while confident that the search for a "Realometer" will be disappointed, and finally giving...

...downward through the mud and slush ol opinion, and prejudice, and tradition and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris...London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through Cburch and State, through poetrv and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks...

...downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris...can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake. ... Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our...

...downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris...come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake ____ Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If...

...downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris...can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake." This positive dredging beat reminds us again of his awareness of the physical basis of rhythm. It can...

...through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance. . through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we...can call reality, and say 'This is, and no mistake.' (Thoreau 70) In this, the Transcendentalists were repeating in secular language what their Protestant...

...matters. Hence, even when they claim to furnish their readers with what Thoreau described in Waiden as "a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say This is, and no mistake," that "bottom" or "reality"—as Thoreau characteristically added in further elaboration and as pragmatist...

...through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance. .. through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which wc can call reality, and say "This is, and no mistake.' (Thoreau 70) In this, the Transcendentalists...

...prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe . . . till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality" (66). Taken together, Thoreau's images signify the successful grounding of the "castle in the air"...