Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) championed the belief that people
of conscience were at liberty to follow their own opinion. In these
selections from his writings, we see Thoreau the individualist and
opponent of injustice. "Civil Disobedience" (1849), composed
following Thoreau's imprisonment for refusing to pay his taxes in
protest against slavery and the Mexican War, is an eloquent
declaration of the principles that make revolution inevitable in
times of political dishonor. "Solitude," from his masterpiece,
Walden (1854), poetically describes Thoreau's oneness with nature
and the companionship solitude offers to those who want to be rid
of the travails of the world to discover themselves. "Life without
Principle" (posthumously published 1863) decries the way in which
excessive devotion to business and money coarsens the fabric of
society: in merely making a living, the meaning of life gets lost.
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