1. Henry David Thoreau
... man more right then his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one already (Mahoney Smith)." ""Civil Disobedience" is pure transcendentalism. I t carries the philosophy of the "Founding Fathers" of this country to its logical conclusion, and thus it is sometimes referred as the "Declaration of Independence for the Concise (Concise 352)."" On February 4, 1846 while living at Walden Pond, Henry delivered a lecture on Thomas Carlyle at the Concord Lyceum; someone in his audience told him ... obscure Englishman. A year later, heeding that advice, he delivered a lecture on the "The History of ...
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