ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
to live only by tual Insurance
company, wo bury ly.
It is not a mans duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself
to tion of any, even t enormous wrong; he may
still properly o engage it is his
duty, at least, to was, and, if no
t longer, not to give it practically . If I devote
myself to ots and contemplations, I must first see, at
least, t I do not pursue tting upon another mans
s get off , t he may pursue his
contemplations too. See ency is tolerated. I
o;I so hem
order me out to doion of to
marco Mexico; -- see if I ;; and yet these very men have
eacly by tly, at least, by
titute. the soldier is applauded who
refuses to serve in an unjust refuse to
sustain t government whe war; is applauded by
t and auty s at naught;
as if tate ent to t degree t it o
scourge it not to t degree t it left off
sinning for a moment. the name of Order and Civil
Government, last to pay o and support our
oer t bluss indifference;
and from immoral it becomes, as it quite
unnecessary to t life which we have made.
t and most prevalent error requires t
disinterested virtue to sustain it. t reproaco which
tue of patriotism is commonly liable, t
likely to incur. ter
and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and
support are undoubtedly its most conscientio