have a voluntary State as well as a voluntary Church, and we may possibly then have some claim to the appellation of free men." Selected publications A Classification of Sciences and Arts, Or, A Map of Human Knowledge, 1826 A Dictionary, English and Burmese, 1841 A Voluntary Political Government, 1843 Life in the Woods, 1844 Brook Farm, 1844 See also American philosophy List of American philosophers References 1800 births 1870 deaths 19th-century American essayists 19th-century American philosophers American abolitionists American tax resisters Civil disobedience English emigrants to the United States Founders of utopian communities People from Harvard, Massachusetts Philosophers from Massachusetts American veganism activists Voluntaryists