... David Thoreau was also a major critic concerning the ability of the masses to logically decipher "truth" and an advocate of an individual's responsibility to democracy regardless of a possible societal backlash. Thoreau's affirmation of the validity of individuality is evident throughout his work entitled Walden and Civil Disobedience. Thoreau believed that the majority of societies were merely minions of a domineering governmental institution. Similar to Socrates, Thoreau begins ... the law, and they put the point of the hook in through one side of his belly and out the other and they l...

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