Civil Disobedience
1800
- résistance au gouvernement
- resistance to government
- désobéissance civile
- [document]
- abolitionnisme
- gouvernement, résistance au
- document
- american authors
- biography
- civil disobedience
The story
Written with the motto "that government is best that governs least", when men are ready for it, that will be the kind of government we will have. This book tries to tell us to think for ourselves. This is a Must Read for anyone anti-government. Please note: This book is in easy to read true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. This e-Book is printable.
What it’s like
Plain, unadorned nineteenth-century prose carries this essay: long sentences that move like a steady walk, sharp aphorisms set off in their own lines, and a voice that sounds like a neighbour talking across a fence rather than a lecturer at a podium. Its atmosphere is that of a clear-headed New England study in the 1840s, all pale daylight through a single window, the faint smell of paper and lamp oil, a sense of solitude and open country just beyond the page. Nothing is decorated for effect; the pleasure is in the bluntness and the sudden turns toward humour and moral heat. Its mood is brisk, contrarian, and quietly defiant, the kind of reading that clears the head on a grey afternoon or steadies a restless mind late at night. The pace is conversational and digressive, circling back to a single stubborn question of conscience. Intensity is low: there is no violence, gore or sexual content, though the essay touches on slavery, imprisonment and the state's power to coerce, and its anger is intellectual rather than graphic. It suits readers who want provocation without spectacle, anyone curious about individual conscience, and those drawn to the tradition of American self-reliance and dissent.
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