This set of timeless essays from the quintessential American shares
his valuable philosophies on nature, solitude, slavery, religion,
politics, fulfilling work, civil responsibilities, and more.
WALDEN, Thoreau’s beloved and well-known reflection upon simple
living in natural surroundings, looks at how the outside world can
benefit from renouncing a materialistic way of life. “If the
machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to
be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the
law.” —Thoreau “If a plant cannot live according to its
nature, it dies; and so a man.” —Thoreau His other essays deal
with the social problems of his time: CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE applies
principles of individualism to civil life, culminating in a call
for a life that answers to a power outside of and unaffected by the
state. LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE offers his program for a righteous
livelihood through ten “commandments.” SLAVERY IN MASSACHUSETTS
is based on a speech he gave at an antislavery rally after the
re-enslavement of fugitive slave Anthony Burns and relates that
freedom could not exist while slavery remained. PLEA FOR CAPTAIN
JAMES BROWN portrays his kinship to Brown’s abolitionist efforts
and anger toward the injustice Brown received. “Thoreau was a
great writer, philosopher, poet, and withal a most practical man,
that is, he taught nothing he was not prepared to practise in
himself. . . . He went to gaol for the sake of his principles and
suffering humanity. His essay has, therefore, been sanctified by
suffering. Moreover, it is written for all time. Its incisive logic
is unanswerable.” —Mohandas Gandhi “. . . when, in the
mid-1950s, the United States Information Service included as a
standard book in all their libraries around the world a textbook .
. . which reprinted Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience,’ the late
Senator Joseph McCarthy succeeded in having that book removed from
the shelves—specifically because of the Thoreau essay.”
—Walter Harding, in The Variorum Civil Disobedience "I became
convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral
obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been
more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry
David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we
are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest." —Martin Luther
King, Jr., Autobiography
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