![]() ![]() ![]() Thoreau, in order to justify the rightness of Civil Disobedience and the need for the rule of supreme individualism or transcendentalism, explains the inherent problems with the government.Īccording to Thoreau, the American Government “has not the vitality and force of a single man can bend it to his will.” Further, he says, “Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on even impose on themselves, for their own advantages.” ![]() Summary Inherent Problems With Government This is why, he begins his speech as, and “I heartily accept the motto-‘That government is best which governs least’.”īut he considers the motto to be lacking something and goes on to the extent saying- “That government is best which governs not at all.” Thus Thoreau is highly critical of the extent to which a government interferes in the life of commoners. Thoreau examining the consequences of the rule of the state was satisfied with the fact that too much intervention and interference of laws of a government and silence of its subjects can be very dangerous as it will make the people follow even those rules of the government, which its makers have made for their own sake and profit. ![]()
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