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what does it mean ? "a man is not in his skin,we need not touch him. "
It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live,for as the value of a man is not in his skin, we need not touch him.
Mar 17, 2012 8:39 AM
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You've misquoted (or, you're using a shoddy paraphrase).
"It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live. The value of a man is not in his skin, that we should touch him." - Thoreau (Walden)
It means a person's value is not found in the physical form, if we wanted to make contact with that value.
March 17, 2012
Well,the sentence you write is wrong.
March 17, 2012
It doesn't mean anything. Where did you read this? It is utter nonsense.
March 17, 2012
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