• The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.

    Henry David Thoreau: The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.10, Simon and Schuster