The Service by Henry David Thoreau

"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 Rejected by The Dial and unpublished during his lifetime, this provocative work uses war and military discipline as surprising metaphors for conducting one's life.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 ... Read More victory nor defeat, but earnest commitment to life's campaign. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Show Less

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Author	Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
Title	The Service
Note	Wikipedia page on this work: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Service
Reading Level	Reading ease score: 71.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language	English
LoC Class	PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject	American essays -- 19th century
Category	Text
EBook-No.	60951
Release Date	Dec 18, 2019
Most Recently Updated	Oct 17, 2024
Copyright Status	Public domain in the USA.
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