TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thoreau,Henry David
TI  - The Service
AV  - PS 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - American essays -- 19th century
N1  - Wikipedia page on this work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Service; Release date is 2019-12-18; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "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 Rejected by The Dial and unpublished during his lifetime, this provocative work uses war and military discipline as surprising metaphors for conducting one's life.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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60951
ER  -