ENGLISH 2H06 Lecture Notes - Henry David Thoreau, I Lived, Civil Religion
25 Apr 2013
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Negative image usually about how it has flaws. If youre forced to harm another then break the law: i am not the son of the engineer. and prior your money or your life . The government is a fearful institution, but in reality it"s pathetic. I was not directly involved in creating this machinery, i"m not responsible i was born into it: the government does not have the force of one single living person . It"s not alive, it opposes something natural that grows, it opposes a single human being. The machine metaphor is an organic metaphor. For him, it is vital for a human being living in society to realize themselves and. If a plant cannot live according to nature, it dies; and so a man. not become disintegrated and suffer a metaphorical death. Original title on the duty of civil disobedience: thoreau uses paradoxes all the time.
