Ideas And Reality (thoreau)

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on how the people conduct their meetings, lacking the laws of the government, the society would collapse.
He also criticizes the government for not being virtuous (Ponds pg. 119 last paragraph). The American government is controlled by the people, if he wants a government that is virtuous, he should either get elected, or try to get the non-virtuous people out of office. Further, politicians who made their name elsewhere have said things to the effect of, “either you already have a name for yourself, or somewhere along the line you sell your soul…” essentially saying that virtue and politics don’t work together.
Thoreau further shows how he cannot support his own ideas when he says that he spent two years “alone, in the woods,”(Economy pg. 7, 1st sentence). He did not spend two years “alone” and a great period of the time which he was there was not “in the woods.” In fact, he had as many as thirty guests at a time (Visitors pg. 97 last line). He tries to show how he had few ...

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