True reform was interior, private and wholly individual. Reforming oneself meant discovering the divinity within oneslef.
The transcendental individualist who emerges is appealing and convincing, because the vivid details of the woods, the pond and the seasons are used as symbolic means to validate his vision of a spiritual life.
Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose upon themselves, for their own advantage.
A corporation has no conscience but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.
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