“It was sailing by dead reckoning to them, and they saw not clearly how to make their port so; therefore I suppose they still take life bravely, after their fashion, face to face, giving it tooth and nail, not having skill to split its massive columns with any fine entering wedge, and rout it in detail; - thinking to deal with it roughly...” Poverty Book:Walden: Or, Life in the Woods [and] on the Duty of Civil Disobedience Source: Walden: Or, Life in the Woods [and] on the Duty of Civil Disobedience