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To: Rarebird who wrote (2859)	1/16/2001 8:45:55 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) of 6089

Sorry, but the left can't claim Thoreau. He was America's first right wing beatnik. Consider the opening lines to On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - I heartily accept the motto,--"That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe,--"That government is best which governs not at all" Do lefties really go along with this? I thought not. Maybe we can share Emerson. Brownson was a staunch Catholic, his attacks on Protestants were very effective. I have been under the impression his periodical, The Quarterly Review, was quite conservative.

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