Rather, the term describes a mental state in which the idea of justice is so well defined that incongruity cannot exist. The phrase “To toil”, as it is expressed in this quotation, means to surrender ideals for the sake of law or orthodoxy. Thoreau realizes that the only true power that the government holds over any individual is the promise of brute force; the State "never intentionally confronts a man’s sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses" (Thoreau, p...
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687). Consequently, numerous acts that are required by the State will prove to be unjust. Thoreau shows that the State can and will force a man to slave for the sake of an ordeal he does not believe in. Thoreau states that "a wise man will only be useful as a man" (Thoreau, p. 678). This shows that Thoreau believes that men who toil at any ruling establishment’s bidding, merely because it sought him to do so, surrenders his own facilities as a human being; and becomes nothing more than "on a level with wood and earth and stones...
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