Thoreau and "Economy"

Open the Google Doc at this link. 

Read the essay by Henry David Thoreau. The words in bold are defined or explained at the end of the essay. 

Answer the questions at the end of the essay. Write your answers on a paper that you will turn in at the end of class. 

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