I feel that Thoreau were alive in today’s society that he would be horrified by the way people view there possessions higher then their view on life. Also he would dislike the fact that people are judged by how much money they have and what there material possessions are, not the moral characteristics are. this quote from the passage shows that he basses his beliefs on a persons “moral values” ” My imagination carried me so far that I even had the refusal of several farms, – the refusal was all I wanted, – but I never got my fingers burned by actual possessions” (page 67, top paragraph first sentence)
