What is the meaning of the aphorism below from Section 12 of Thoreau's writings on "Civil Disobedience"?
Section 12: Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man's real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death.
A. The conscience can bleed if it gets wounded.
B. Wounding the conscience causes one to bleed, not to a mortal, but to an everlasting death.
c. Manhood and immortality are part and parcel to the conscience of all mankind in mortality.

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What is the meaning of the aphorism below from Section 12 of Thoreau's writings on "Civil Disobedience"?
Section 12: Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man's real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death.
A. The conscience can bleed if it gets wounded.
B. Wounding the conscience causes one to bleed, not to a mortal, but to an everlasting death.
c. Manhood and immortality are part and parcel to the conscience of all mankind in mortality.

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