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Which sentence in this excerpt from Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" implicitly argues that people need to think independently and
question authority?
I believe that the State will soon be able to take all my work of this sort out of my hands, and then I shall be no better a patriot than my fellow-
countrymen. Seen from a lower point of view, the Constitution, with all its faults, is very good; the law and the courts are very respectable; even this
State and this American government are, in many respects, very admirable and rare things, to be thankful for, such as a great many have described
them; but seen from a point of view a little higher, they are what I have described them; seen from a higher still, and the highest, who shall say what
they are, or that they are worth looking at or thinking of at all?
However, the government does not concern me much, and I shall bestow the fewest possible thoughts on it. It is not many moments that I live under
a government, even in this world. If a man is thought-free, fancy-free, imagination-free, that which is not never for a long time appearing to be to
him, unwise rulers or reformers cannot fatally interrupt him.
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In the passage from Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," the sentence that implicitly argues that people need to think independently and question authority is:

"If a man is thought-free, fancy-free, imagination-free, that which is not never for a long time appearing to be to him, unwise rulers or reformers cannot fatally interrupt him."

This sentence suggests that individuals who are free from preconceived thoughts, imagination, and fancy are not easily influenced or swayed by unwise rulers or reformers. It encourages the idea that critical thinking and independence from conventional beliefs are essential in resisting oppressive authority and standing up for one's beliefs.