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History of Ideas: Thoreau
Past Present Future
The Life of Thoreau
The work that Thoreau would have believed had been done by the victory of the civil war nothing about it is simple nothing about it simply makes sense in Thoreau's terms. The only way you're going to wake up from your slumbers is to be so irritated that you can't rest peacefully, he said. "You need to wash your hands of your fellow citizens and their stupidity" He was not just a man who was starving himself because he couldn't bear his own body but one of the lives that he felt had to be lived and couldn't be lived in the woodswas the life of the person who does resist within a democracy.
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