The Service
Résumé
"The Service" by Henry David Thoreau is an essay written in 1840. Rejected by The Dial and unpublished during his lifetime, this provocative work uses war and military discipline as surprising metaphors for conducting one's life. Writing against the popular pacifist "nonresistance" movement of his era, Thoreau warns that pacifism can slip into dangerous passivity. He advocates instead for a spirited crusade of active engagement—combining war's energy with peace's calmness, seeking neither victory nor defeat, but earnest commitment to life's campaign. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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Public domain in the USA.
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Sujets (5)
- Category: American Literature
- Category: Philosophy & Ethics
- Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
- PS
- American essays -- 19th century