Civil disobedience : on the duty of / Henry David Thoreau.
Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience in 1849. It argues the superiority of the individual conscience over acquiescence to government. Thoreau was inspired to write in response to slavery and the Mexican-American war. He believed that people could not be made agents of injustice if they were governed by...
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| Language: | English |
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[Auckland, N.Z.] :
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| Summary: | Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience in 1849. It argues the superiority of the individual conscience over acquiescence to government. Thoreau was inspired to write in response to slavery and the Mexican-American war. He believed that people could not be made agents of injustice if they were governed by their own consciences. |
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| Item Description: | Archived by the National Library of New Zealand. Title from PDF title page (viewed on Aug. 10, 2009) "1849, original title: Resistance to Civil Government"--Page 3. Hypertext links contained in the archived instances of this title are non-functional. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 electronic document (35 pages)) |
| ISBN: | 9781775412465 1775412466 9781775564058 1775564053 |