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Read more by this surprisingly Modern Spiritual Master in this volume edited by Jon Sweeney orbisbooks.com/henry-david-th

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Henry David Thoreau died on May 6 1862. In 1846 he was arrested and brirfly jailed for refusing to pay a tax he believed would support the war in Mexico and the extension of slavery. Afterward he wrote his classic essay on Civil Disobedience.

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This one Edited by Tim Flinders.

edited a volume by Thoreau’s friend Ralph Waldo Emerson

12:19 PM · May 6, 2019