Thoreau delivered the first draft of the treatise as an oration to the Concord Lyceum in 1848, and the text was published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government. The two major issues being debated in the United States during Thoreau's life were slavery and the Mexican-American War.
I see an accident. the slip up of a scooter which resulted in the little boy in the red on the ground, hurt. i see an act of kindness, the boy in the blue went out of his way to help and comfort the hurt boy.
