Consider the way Worster's version of Thoreau's empirically rooted difference from Emerson's figuratively deracinated use of nature has extended into recent criticism that gives greater attention to Thoreau's unpublished work after Walden (1854). ... On my reading, Emerson has his own more empirical, late natural history projects, work also left largely unfinished and generally neglected by critics because it, too, was found wanting, as Robinson suggests of Thoreau's post-Walden work, by a "New Critical celebration" of "formal and symbolic achievement." (9) I give part...

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Of course he framed his question in a way that made it impossible to give the only reasonable answer, which we in the science studies have slowly rediscovered three centuries later: that we are relatively sure of many of the things with which we are daily engaged through the practice of our laboratories. ...

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