The book you have opened will help you in a very short time to study the sequence and logical development of the philosophical views and views of the American philosopher and romantic writer Henry David Thoreau, who suggested the possibility of gaining individual freedom without physically (geographically) breaking with the hated society: he built a house on the shore of the lake, in which he lived for two years, testing his own theory. The theory was confirmed and was presented to a wide range of readers in the form of the wonderful work “Walden, or Life in the Woods.”