瓦尔登湖的生活哲学(英文版).doc

Life Philosophy from the Walden In the nineteenth century,with the rapid development of modern social productive forces of capitalism,people began to feel the advanced technology the material civilization brought profoundly.Meanwhile the pursuit of material became obvious.The commercialization of age was inclined to satisfy with people’s increasing material requirement to a maximum extent while any spiritual belief in the tide of the strong development of capitalism appear feeble and so vulnerable.In the face of such phenomenon,many scholars, thinkers and other people with lofty ideas generated the unprecedented doubts:Is the commercial society of capitalism our ideal society?Are the money and the power our human permanent pursuit?With this kind of doubts, in the summer of 1845 , Thoreau built log cabin beside Walden Pond,living in the woods along for two years and two months.He lived modestly,Self-sufficiency and planted sprouts, gathering berries.During the spare time,he often went swimming and went for a walk ,or chatted with some friends living at the nearby town. Meanwhile, he wrote down the Walden ,the representative works of immortality.The author’s moving to the cabin was weird action,especially in the age when most people choose to struggle to succeed in society requiring more money and power.The Walden is the sincere description of the nature ,the authoritative guide of simple life and the heartless charges to the gold coin society. ”Innumerable little streams overlap and interlace one with another,exhibition a sort of hybrid product,which obeys half way the law of currents,and half way that of vegetation.As it flows it takes the forms of sappy leaves or vines,making heaps of pulpy sprays a foot or more in depth,and resembling,as you look down on them ,the laciniated,lobed, and imbricated thalluses of some lichens;or you are reminded of coral,of leopard’s paws or birds’feet,of brains or lungs or bowels,and excrements of all kinds.”(chapter 17) The ab