1. In this quote Marx’s is saying that the social class that you are a part of cannot be separated from your consciousness. The first part of this quote seems to imply that one’s consciousness is not what determines the life they will be able to live. The second explains that social class ultimately determines the kind of life you will live. 2. Marx’s explains that the foundation of society are the relationships that create the economy. He then expresses his belief that the legal and political “superstructures” predicated on economic values form our social consciousness. As a result economic values “conditions the general process of social, political, and intellectual life.” His point in this section of work is likely to illustrate the relationship and highlight the extreme dependence of our economy on this type of interaction. 3. Though now widely accepted, at the time of its writing readers of Decent of Man were faced with a very bold claim posed by Darwin that “man is descended from some lowly-organized form.” Though to some readers this may seem too big a claim to prove, he quickly brings this theory to life when detailing the Fuegians. This tribe of people serves as a reminder of what even the most advanced humans were not so long ago, “…like wild animals lived on what they could catch; they had no government, and were merciless to everyone not of their own small tribe.” By seeing this depiction the idea that man may come from a lower form of life becomes much more likely. I do believe that man comes from a lower form and we were not designed separate from other forms of life, this makes the achievement of man even more astonishing. 4. In this article about civil disobedience Thoreau believes that our political system is predicated on the belief that “[citizens] out to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them.” He goes on to explain that a good government must listen to the “its wise minority” and be more reactive rather than reactionary. He further explains that the current system requires an injustice to occur before it can be addressed. This is all the foundation of the greater argument Thoreau makes that citizens should be able to resist freely to lead to a better governmental system.