1. Justice and politics:an ongoing tension
Thoreau writes: "How does it become a man to behave toward the American government today? ... I think we should be men first, and subjects afterward." ... I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few were to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow men. ... That is the reason why Thoreau explains that we should leave the political world alone. ... As...
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