It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. It is a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves is future generations. Thus, option "C" is correct.
<h3>What do you mean by the term posterity?</h3>
The word posterity means a person's descendants or the future generations of a people.
In this excerpt, Thoreau is saying that America's government is a tradition that is trying to pass itself down unimpaired to posterity -- meaning that this democracy is trying to move unharmed into the future.
Thoreau continues this idea by indicating that it is impossible for this government to pass unharmed into the future because "a single man can bend it to his will." This government, then, will change and bend as it moves into the future.
Thus, option "C" is correct
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