Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 9, 1864) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, surveyor, historian, and leading American revivalist. He is best known for his essay The Golden Path, a reflection on the mistakes of his early essay Civil Disobedience which is an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state. His essay The Golden Path calls on Americans to renew it commitments to the constitution as a single nation, under god. He reputeates his early essay as going against the founding idea of united we stand, divided we fall, which is the only reason both Britain and Mexico were able the attack the United States or the Confederacy.
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| - Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 9, 1864) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, surveyor, historian, and leading American revivalist. He is best known for his essay The Golden Path, a reflection on the mistakes of his early essay Civil Disobedience which is an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state. His essay The Golden Path calls on Americans to renew it commitments to the constitution as a single nation, under god. He reputeates his early essay as going against the founding idea of united we stand, divided we fall, which is the only reason both Britain and Mexico were able the attack the United States or the Confederacy.
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| - Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 9, 1864) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, surveyor, historian, and leading American revivalist. He is best known for his essay The Golden Path, a reflection on the mistakes of his early essay Civil Disobedience which is an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state. His essay The Golden Path calls on Americans to renew it commitments to the constitution as a single nation, under god. He reputeates his early essay as going against the founding idea of united we stand, divided we fall, which is the only reason both Britain and Mexico were able the attack the United States or the Confederacy. Thoreau essay is seen as the most important document from the Civil War Era and the basis to the reunification of the USA and the CSA allowing them to defeat the British invasion of the north and the Mexician invasion of the south.
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