ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonable
experience and tual complaints of the people, America would
not long retain ions. For eighteen hundred
years, t to say it, testament
ten; yet wor who has wisdom and
practical talent enougo avail w sheds
on tion?
ty of government, even suco submit
to -- for I er
ther know nor can do so
ill an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have
tion and consent of t can
over my person and property but o it. the progress
from an absolute to a limited monarced monarco a
democracy, is a progress torue respect for the individual.
Even to regard the
individual as the empire. Is a democracy, such as we
kno, t improvement possible in government? Is it not
possible to take a step furtowards recognizing and organizing
ts of man? there will never be a really free and
enligate until tate comes to recognize the individual
as a power, from ws own power and
auty are derived, and treats him accordingly. I please myself
ate at least to all
men, and to treat t as a neighbor; which
even t inconsistent s own repose if a few
o live aloof from it, not meddling , nor embraced by
it, wies of neighbors and fellow-men. A
State to drop off as
fast as it ripened, ill more perfect
and glorious State, yet anywhere
seen.