First published in 1849, Henry David Thoreau’s frank essay “Resistance to Civil Government” has inspired countless writers, thinkers, and doers from Gandhi to Tolstoy to Alice Paul. With his message of resistance to a state that enforces unjust laws, Thoreau places an individual’s conscience above their duty as a citizen or as a subject of the government.
Thoreau’s night in jail resulted in a series of talks delivered at Concord’s Lyceum in 1848, shortly after his return to society from his famous residence at Walden Pond. Henry was arrested for his refusal to pay the poll tax. He was loath to pay an imperialist government that upheld the evil of slavery. Thoreau answers the question, “What does one do with their Rage at the Machine?” with a passion and a clarity that make it seem almost simple. He would have a person be a wrench thrown into the cogs and gears of an unjust government. Anything short of open defiance, for Thoreau, is ineffectual and vain.
This “pamphleteer” edition is printed on 22lb bond paper with archival ink and is hand-sewn with blue French cotton thread. The cover is a grey cardstock from Astrobrights. All paper is made in the USA, lignin free, and acid-free.
And this item ships for free, too, to anywhere the USPS can reach.
First published in 1849, Henry David Thoreau’s frank essay “Resistance to Civil Government” has inspired countless writers, thinkers, and doers from Gandhi to Tolstoy to Alice Paul. With his message of resistance to a state that enforces unjust laws, Thoreau places an individual’s conscience above their duty as a citizen or as a subject of the government.
Thoreau’s night in jail resulted in a series of talks delivered at Concord’s Lyceum in 1848, shortly after his return to society from his famous residence at Walden Pond. Henry was arrested for his refusal to pay the poll tax. He was loath to pay an imperialist government that upheld the evil of slavery. Thoreau answers the question, “What does one do with their Rage at the Machine?” with a passion and a clarity that make it seem almost simple. He would have a person be a wrench thrown into the cogs and gears of an unjust government. Anything short of open defiance, for Thoreau, is ineffectual and vain.
This “pamphleteer” edition is printed on 22lb bond paper with archival ink and is hand-sewn with blue French cotton thread. The cover is a grey cardstock from Astrobrights. All paper is made in the USA, lignin free, and acid-free.
And this item ships for free, too, to anywhere the USPS can reach.
