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Spooner vs. Thoreau: Two sides of the same coin.
Lysander Spooner (the lawyer) stayed in the city, using cold "legal logic" to try and declare the State unconstitutional.
Henry David Thoreau (the philosopher) retreated to the woods, appealing to "moral conscience" to reject the State.
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