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by: Henry David Thoreau
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 814.3
EAN: 9780486275635
ISBN: 0486275639
Label: Dover Publications
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 90
Publication Date: May 20, 1993
Publisher: Dover Publications
Sales Rank: 8852
Studio: Dover Publications
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Thoreau has inspired generations of readers to think for themselves and to find meaning and beauty in nature. This sampling includes five of his most frequently read and cited essays: 'On the Duty of Civil Disobedience' (1849), 'Life without Principle' (1863), 'Slavery in Massachusetts' (1854), 'A Plea for Captain John Brown' (1869) and 'Walking' (1862).
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Rating:  - A MAN CANNOT WITHOUT DISGRACE BE ASSOCIATED WITH TODAY'S AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
Possibly the best exemplar of what America truly stands for is Henry David Thoreau. The above title quite effectively summarizes the premise of Thoreau's CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE. Unfortunately, this sentiment is no less true today than it was in Thoreau's time. The government he so despised supported slavery, the slaughter of Native Americans, and a war of conquest against Mexico. The majority of Americans today agree that the first two, at least, are quite disgraceful (though only in retrospect). ... Read More
Rating: - Duty is the essential element
It's great to see this edition, a small, affordable and easily carried book for a day outing. One thing that is disappointing is that the title of the essay 'On the Duty of Civil Disobedience' has been shortened. A vital point is that it is a citizens DUTY to disobey when government diverges from what is right. And to leave this off of the title, in some sort of 'fast food, fast literature' shorthand, is to diminish it in the minds of Americans.
Great to read with Emerson's Divinity School Address ... Read More
Rating: - The Hobo Philosopher
There is one interesting fact about Thoreau that most of the reviewers here and elsewhere seem to always overlook. Everyone knows that Thoreau went to jail (overnight) for refusing to pay a poll tax. But no one ever seems to mention why Mr. Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax.
Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax in protest of this country's war against Mexico. Thoreau was a "war protester". The poll tax had been passed to raise money to support that war. Thoreau believed that the war with Mexico was ... Read More
Rating: - The Persistance Of The Philosophers ...
"Because they could not seize my thoughts, they decided, to punish my body...": this sentence was the first,which remaind in my memory, consolidated in my soul, reason enough, to explore more about this Henry David Thoreau (12.7.1817-2.5.1862). He moved in the same circles of society-critical network as Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), in the middle of the 19th century at the American east coast. Thoreau's "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" has left behind world-wide effects: Gandhi carried it during his frequent ... Read More
Rating: - The moral obligation to resist
Henry David Thoreau did not just think, he acted. In order to see which luxuries of life he could live without, he lived in a secluded area for two years near Walden pond. Instead of paying a poll tax he thought unjust, he spent a night in jail. Thoreau backed his thoughts with action, and this gives validity to many of his writings.
Perhaps no work of Thoreau has been more influential than his essay "Civil Disobedience." Many world leaders, including Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., drew ... Read More
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