More from Henry David Thoreau

  1. The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the in…
  2. Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recogniz…
  3. A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the State with their consciences also, and so necess…
  4. To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense, it conta…
  5. For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who…
  6. The hidden significance of these fables which is sometimes thought to have been detected, the ethics running parallel to the poetry and his…
  7. No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are orators, politicians, an…
  8. You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow…

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