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 ...
Thoreau was born in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. Though his family moved the following year, they returned in 1823. Even when he grew ambivalent about the village after reaching manhood, it remained his world, for he never grew ambivalent about its lovely setting of woodlands, streams, and meadows.