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...ivil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, ...

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...Excerpt: Reprinted from Fraser?s Magazine. The cloud which for the space of a month hung gloomily over the civilized world, black with far worse evils than those of simple war, has passed from over our heads without bursting. The fear has not been realized, that the only two first-rate Powers who are also free nations would take t...

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... agazine T HE CLOUD which for the space of a month hung gloomily over the civilized world, black with far worse evils than those of simple war, has p... ... over the civilized world, black with far worse evils than those of simple war, has passed from over our heads without bursting. The fear has not been... ...s, both the one and the other in a bad and odious cause. For while, on the American side, the war would have been one of reckless persistency in wrong... ... the other in a bad and odious cause. For while, on the American side, the war would have been one of reckless persistency in wrong, on ours it would ... ...ve been one of reckless persistency in wrong, on ours it would have been a war in alliance with, and, to practical purposes, in defence and propagatio... ... a conspiracy of slave own ers, who have broken their connection with the American Federation on the sole ground, ostentatiously proclaimed, that the... ...el ings which have been manifested since the beginning of the 5 J S Mill American contest—the judgments which have been put forth, and the wishes wh... ... for God. Now, when the mind of England, and it may almost be said, of the civilized part of mankind, has been relieved from the incubus which had wei... ... terms of communion without their consent. But the parties in a protracted civil war almost invariably end by taking more extreme, not to say higher g...

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...Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools—most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama—to help black people and o...

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...Philip Dru: Administrator: a Story of Tomorrow, 1920-1935 is a futuristic political novel published anonymously in 1912 by Edward Mandell House, an American diplomat, politician and presidential foreign policy advisor. His book's hero leads the democratic western U.S. in a civil war against the plutocratic East, and becomes the dictator of America. Dru as dictator impose...

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...he subject of this essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the mis-named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly infl...

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...ortunately opposed to the mis named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be... ...ost from the remotest ages, but in the stage of progress into which the more civilized portions of the species have now entered, it presents itself un... ... and feeling; against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil pen alties, its own ideas and practices as rules of con duct on t... ...it is not On Liberty — Mill 63 of the nature of assassination but of civil war. As such, I hold that the instigation to it, in a specific case, may ... ...ve people who ever lived. On Liberty — Mill 83 It is individuality that we war against: we should think we had done wonders if we had made our selv... ... some tolerable plan of action. What the French are in military affairs, the Americans are in every kind of civil business; let them be left without a... ...nd of civil business; let them be left without a govern ment, every body of Americans is able to improvise one, and to carry on that or any other pub...

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...els, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence. This country ... ...l rights, privi- leges, and protection. As a nation we have made peace and war; as a nation we have vanquished our common enemies; as a nation we have... ...: It is not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like the Americans, intelligent and wellinformed) seldom adopt and steadily persever... ...ark be just, it be- comes useful to inquire whether so many just causes of war are likely to be given by united America as by disunited America; for i... ...is much to be doubted whether Massachusetts would have been plunged into a civil war. But notwithstanding the concurring testimony of experi- * Ibid. ... ...repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. T o be more safe, they at length become willing... ...ws are not accustomed to relaxations, in favor of military exigencies; the civil state remains in full vigor, neither cor- rupted, nor confounded with... ... their most specious declamations. The valuable improve- ments made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cann... ... with painful solicitude. They foresee the dangers that may threaten their American dominions from the neighbor- hood of States, which have all the di...

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...tual occurrence. Nothing but foreign force would in duce a tribe of North American Indians to submit to the restraints of a regular and civilized gov... ...ibe of North American Indians to submit to the restraints of a regular and civilized government. The same might have been said, though somewhat less a... ...res of them. A rude people, though in some degree alive to the benefits of civilized soci ety, may be unable to practice the forbearances which it de... ... the laws the avenging of their real or supposed wrongs. In such a case, a civilized government, to be really advantageous 9 J S Mill to them, will r... ...anish America, keep the country in a state of chronic revolution and civil war. A despotism, not even legal, but of illegal violence, would be alterna... ...it to the entire generation in which it took place. It put a stop to civil war, abated a vast amount of malversation and tyranny by prætors and procon... ...ns at all in the repre sentative body. It is an admitted fact that in the American democracy, which is constructed on this faulty model, the highly c... ...ne suggested itself to the en lightened and disinterested founders of the American Re public, the federal and state assemblies would have contained ... ...on resistance to foreign aggression might be overlooked during the Crimean war, when there was an overwhelming national feeling on the contrary side, ...

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...s difficulties, and in Paoli, the Corsican patriot; but when I came to the American War, I took my part, like a child as I was (until set right by my ... ...lties, and in Paoli, the Corsican patriot; but when I came to the American War, I took my part, like a child as I was (until set right by my father) o... ...ed, as opportu nity offered, to give me explanations and ideas respecting civilization, government, morality , mental cultivation, which he required ... ...e, while about modern history, except detached passages, such as the Dutch War of Inde pendence, I knew and cared comparatively little. A volun tary... ...nce given to my thoughts by its criticism and disquisitions on society and civilization in the Hindoo part, on institutions and the acts of govern me... ...of a retired miller in Suffolk, who had made money by contracts during the war, and who must have been a man of remarkable qualities, as I infer from ... ...n of centralization. The powerful philosophic analysis which he applied to American and to French experience, led him to attach the utmost importance ... ...he two reviews, the essay reprinted in the Dissertations, under the title “Civilization”; into which I threw many of my new opinions, and criticised r... ...he most elaborate is entitled Elements of Individualism: and a remarkable American, Mr. Warren, had framed a System of Society, on the foundation of ...

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...e effect of a para dox, is in some respects creditable to the progress of civilisation, and the improvement of the moral senti ments of mankind. We ... ... it can only, they think, have been preserved to this period of ad vanced civilisation by a well grounded feeling of its adaptation to human nature, ... ...ion has not brought out its true character, is not felt to jar with modern civilisation, The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill 9 any more than... ... soldiers or Members of Parliament. In the feu dal ages, on the contrary, war and politics were not thought unnatural to women, because not unusual; ... ...remedied. Already, in many of the new and several of the old States of the American Confederation, provisions have been inserted even in the written C... ...reat in science, in public business, in legal and judicial eminence, or in war? There is abundant evidence that the Greeks were of old, as their desce... ...in two of the most marked features of modern European life—its aversion to war, and its addiction to philanthropy. Ex cellent characteristics both; b...