The Discovery of America - Vol. I Nächstenliebe philosophical musings

philosophical musings

As Thoreau explores the lives of local fishermen

and vision

die sich für europäische Kulturgeschichte

and find meaning in the ever-moving currents of life

The Discovery of America - Vol. I Nächstenliebe philosophical musings"The Discovery of America" forms a mental picture of that strange world of savagery and barbarism to which civilized Europeans were for the first time introduced in the course of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, in their voyages along the African coast, into the Indian and Pacific oceans, and across the Atlantic. Nothing that Europeans discovered during that stirring period was so remarkable as these antique phases of human society, the mere