the Thoreau Log.
22 June 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  8 P.M.—Up the Union Turnpike.

  We have had a succession of thunder-showers today and at sunset a rainbow. How moral the world is made! This bow is not utilitarian. Methinks men are great in proportion as they are moral. After the rain He sets his bow in the heavens! The world is not destitute of beauty . . .

(Journal, 4:128-129)

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