emerson@leland.stanford.edu (Michael Theodore Saler) (06/12/91)
Tom Simmonds mentioned being led to a study of the Vedas after reading Thoreau's Walden. I had a similar experience, only it came after reading Emerson's Essays (I still prefer Emerson to Thoreau, although I know many feel exactly the reverse!) I wonder if others have been influenced by the American Transcendent- alists in their studies? Mike