Life Without Principle and Other Essays - Thoreau, Henry David
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"Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves-sometimes split into quarters-which grind on each other." -Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle (1863) Life Without Principle and Other Essays is a collection of Henry David Thoreau's most influential works which have transcended time and paved the way for political leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Included in this volume are Civil Disobedience (1849), Slavery in Massachusetts (1854), A Plea for Captain John Brown (1860), Walking (1862), and Life…mehr

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"Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves-sometimes split into quarters-which grind on each other." -Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle (1863) Life Without Principle and Other Essays is a collection of Henry David Thoreau's most influential works which have transcended time and paved the way for political leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Included in this volume are Civil Disobedience (1849), Slavery in Massachusetts (1854), A Plea for Captain John Brown (1860), Walking (1862), and Life without Principle (1863). These five essays are Thoreau's most quoted and quintessential, a must-read for all those who want to gain deep philosophical knowledge and who are fans of one of the most noted intellectuals of all time.
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Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close observation of nature, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and attention to practical detail.[4] He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs