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    Edward Carpenter

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    We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day. ↗


    — Edward Carpenter

    #ears #hundred #lived #night #our

    Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written. ↗


    — Edward Carpenter

    #ever #experiment #may #most #practical

    When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship! ↗


    — Edward Carpenter

    #board #destined #did #father #german

    Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men. ↗


    — Edward Carpenter

    #come #crowds #first #had #listen

    With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome. ↗


    — Edward Carpenter

    #details #imprisoned #life #material #mind

    The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious. ↗


    — Edward Carpenter

    #capitalist #does #fact #full #general






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    The closing words form the epitaph engraved on his tombstone:

    "Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend or mourn too much over it but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped — to reach it. During 1886 he had a brief relationship with George Hukin[citation needed] who was employed in the Sheffield razor trade; despite Hukin's subsequent marriage which caused a rift between them the men ultimately formed a close and lifelong friendship. Their remoteness from society allowed Carpenter to indulge in naturism which he believed was a symbol of a life at one with nature.

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