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INTRODUCTORY NOTE
and noble scope. He sets no limits to his life, nor to the invasions of Nature; he is not wilfully pragmatical, ascetic or fantastical. But … thought lies too detached; truth is seen too much in detail; there is a want of fluent music."
I find in the margin of the manuscript pencillings evidently by Miss Fuller, saying of particular sentences, "Good," "bella," etc. There are also a half-dozen pencil corrections in Thoreau's hand, which I have followed in copying.
