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Why did henry david thoreau build a cabin on walden pond

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build a cabin by Walden Pond on the land of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Concord, Massachusetts, so he could conduct a so-called “personal experiment.” He describes his pursuit at Walden this way: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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A. To conduct an experiment about living in solitude

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