t that it is "difficult to begin without borrowing." (Thoreau, 32) As for his dealings with clothing, Thoreau felt it was okay to "accept the advantages, though so dearly bought, which the invention and industry of mankind offer." (Thoreau, 31). The problem of Fuel was the simplest one to solve in 19th Century New England. In the very suitable chapter entitled "House-Warming" Thoreau discusses how his days turned to seeking his fourth necessity by scouring the woods for dry wood to burn: "My employment out of doors now was to collect the deadwood in the forest.....There are enough fagots and waste wood of all kinds in the forests of most of our towns to support many fires, but which at present warm none." (Thoreau, 198). Thoreau seemed to have all of the problems of human necessity solved; however whether his self-sustaining microeconomy could be applied on a macro-scale was a question yet to be answered.
             The Thoreausian model of economic man resembled that of the economics
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