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"Emerson, contemporary writers meant little to him except for Thomas Carlyle, whom he regarded as one of the great exhorting prophets of the generation, and Walt Whitman, although he was always a reader of any history of travel and exploration that could suggest possible ways of experimenting with life.
What became Thoreau’s most famous essay, "Resistance to Civil Government" was published anonymously and never attached to his name in print during his life, though such people as Emerson and Hawthorne knew Thoreau was the author; many decades passed before anyone explicitly acted on the essay's radical advice.
Since the 1980s, readers of Thoreau have increasingly admired his journals and his environmental essays; following the lead of John Muir and Aldo Leopold, important writers like Edward Abbey and Annie Dillard have used him as a model for their approaches to nature.
The young radical assigns prophetic authority to Thoreau who went to jail rather than pay his poll tax to a government which countenanced slavery, writing a justification of social protests in his "Civil Disobedience", which in the Twentieth century became the thesis of peaceful protests of Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa and later in his pursuit of the independence of India.
That ancient universe is in such capital health, I think undoubtedly it will never die… به تصویر صفحه مراجعه شود)) "Civil Disobedience" (1849): Henry David Thoreau’s "Civil Disobedience" was originally published in 1849 as Resistance to Civil Government."