Balder Ex-Libris - Thoreau Henry DavidReview of books rare and missing2024-03-16T01:56:42+00:00urn:md5:aa728a70505b2fae05796923271581c2DotclearThoreau Henry David - Waldenurn:md5:f4439dae04701e6d68837a39556787492014-03-03T01:57:00+00:002014-03-03T01:58:29+00:00balderThoreau Henry DavidAmericaDark SunNovelPrism PentadUnited States <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img3/Thoreau_Henry_David_-_Walden.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Thoreau Henry David</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Walden</strong><br />
Year : 1854<br />
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Why Henry Thoreau did live in the woods? - a very quick answer. A paper due soon on Walden? The Walden Express may be just your ticket. Ask Jimmy - collected student questions & answers - the primary message of Walden One Less Accountant: "Thoreau and Emerson saved me from spending a large chunk of my life as an accountant. Walden had the approximate effect of a 2x4 thwacking me between the eyes." A contemporary review... "The economical details and calculations in this book are more curious than useful; for the author's life in the woods was on too narrow a scale to find imitators. But... he says so many pithy and brilliant things, and offers so many piquant, and, we may add, so many just, comments on society as it is, that this book is well worth the reading, both for its actual contents and its suggestive capacity." - A.P. Peabody, North American Review, 1854 100 years later... "Thoreau, very likely without quite knowing what he was up to, took man's relation to nature and man's dilemma in society and man's capacity for elevating his spirit and he beat all these matters together, in a wild free interval of self-justification and delight, and produced an original omelette from which people can draw nourishment in a hungry day." - E.B. White, The Yale Review, 1954. <strong>...</strong></p>Thoreau Henry David - Civil disobedienceurn:md5:0b14ee5ced23e85477f10bd6e0cf3b2a2013-06-23T12:33:00+01:002013-06-23T11:34:06+01:00balderThoreau Henry DavidUnited States <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Thoreau_Henry_David_-_Civil_disobedience_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Thoreau Henry David</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Civil disobedience</strong><br />
Year : 1849<br />
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I HEARTILY accept the motto, — “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe,— “That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for, in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure. This American government,— what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. It is a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves. But it is not the less necessary for this; for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have. Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. It is excellent, we must all allow. Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way. For government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is most expedient, the governed are most let alone by it. Trade and commerce, if they were not made of India-rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way; and, if one were to judge these men wholly by the effects of their actions and not partly by their intentions, they would deserve to be classed and punished with those mischievous persons who put obstructions on the railroads. <strong>...</strong></p>