Awnser: Thoreau begins Civil Disobedience by saying that he agrees with the motto, "That government is best which governs least." Indeed, he says, men will someday be able to have a government that does not govern at all. As it is, government rarely proves useful or efficient. It is often "mistreat and unnatural" so that it no longer represents the will of the people. The Mexican-American War illustrates this phenomenon.
he respects animals because they have retained those values and tokens which human seen to have already lost. in this poem the poet whitman compares man to animals . he finds that man lacks many virtues that animals have .the poet desires to live among the animala because thet are calm and self cofident
