Henry David Thoreau, the intellectual heir to Emerson's transcendental throne, carries on in this vein in his essay, "Civil Disobedience." Thoreau uses the Transcendentalist philosophy to attack the state from an anti-slavery platform. ... The quaint, idealistic notions of Emerson and Thoreau were nothing more than quaint, idealistic notions. ... Thoreau borrows a line from Antigone that sums up his experience well, "It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey"(11). ... The arrogance of Self-Reliance and Civil-Disobedience establ...

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Thoreau was born in 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts. ... Thoreau lived his life on the bare essentials. ... Thoreau was a devoted, naturalist. ... Thoreau was not a supporter of these reforms. ... His most famous essay is "Civil Disobedience," published in 1849. ...

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