3. 1  the theory that the universe has been ruled from its origins by two conflicting powers, one good and one evil, both existing as equally ultimate first causes. 2  the theory that there are two personalities, one human and one divine, in Christ.
Henry David Thoreau , ( born July 12 , 1817 , Concord , Massachusetts , U.S. âdied May 6 , 1862 , Concord ) American essayist , poet , and practical philosopher , renowned for having lived the doctrines of Transcendentalism as recorded in his masterwork , Walden ( 1854 ) , and for having been a vigorous advocate of civil liberties , as evidenced in ...
Ed Reinke/Associated PressWendell Berry at his home in Kentucky in 2011. 1  The sensibility of Wendell Berry, who is sometimes described as a modern day Thoreau but who Iâd call the soul of the real food movement, leads people like me on a path to the door of the hillside house he shares with his wife, Tanya, outside of Port Royal, Ky. Everything is as the pilgrim would have it: Wendell (heâs a one-name icon, like Madonna, but probably in that respect only) is kind and welcoming, all smiles.