Thoreau wrote his famous essay, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,
as a protest against an unjust but popular war and the immoral but
popular institution of slave-owning. He did more than write-he
declined to pay his taxes, and was hauled off to gaol in
consequence. Who can say how much this refusal of his hastened the
end of the war and of slavery ? At the present day, intellectual
detachment from the State, and individual defiance of its behests
when these are opposed to conscience, are more difficult, and
apparently more futile, than in Thoreau's time. The unit seems of
less importance in the mass. It is all the more imperative,
therefore, that the facts that the mass is composed of units and
the conscience of the mass is the aggregate conscience of the
units, and that the individual is still the sole responsible
guardian of his own conscience and the co-guardian of the public
conscience, should be fully recognized.
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