I think that it is "It reinforces the idea that without equality in the US, the idea of a free society is a joke."
The Thoreau feel that the people who serve the state have the same worth as dogs or horses and that they should receive no more respect then a man of straw or a lump of dirt, so these people feel that working for the state rarely make any moral distinctions,and it also says in the paragraph that they are likely to serve the devil. So by this article we can clearly see that they are apposed to any form of serving the state.
I hope this helped :)
I would say the answer is D.
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In 1879 a group of American citizens came together to to accomplish a dream of bringing art and education to the Americans by making a museum. In the group there were businessmen, financers. leading artists and leading thinkers. On this very day in 1870, it was accomplished and named The Metropolitan Museum of Art. After a short span of time, they even showcased their first piece of artwork, a Roman sarcophagus.
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