ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
jail, it is because t considered wisely
te feelings interfere he public good.
tion at present. But one cannot be too
muc ion be biased by
obstinacy or an undue regard for t him see
t belongs to o the hour.
I times, hey are only
ignorant; tter if they knew how: why give your
neigo treat you as t inclined to? But I
they do, or
permit oto suffer mucer pain of a different kind.
Again, I sometimes say to myself,
, ill- personal feeling of any kind, demand
of you a fey, sucheir
constitution, of retracting or altering t demand, and
ty, on your side, of appeal to any other
millions, e force? You
do not resist cold and hus
obstinately; you quietly submit to a ties.
You do not put your o t just in proportion as I
regard t partly a human force,
and consider t I ions to to so many
millions of men, and not of mere brute or inanimate things, I see
t appeal is possible, first and instantaneously, from to the
Maker of to t, if I
put my ely into to fire
or to to blame. If I
could convince myself t I to be satisfied h men
as to treat t according, in
some respects, to my requisitions and expectations of hey and
I ougo be, talist, I should
endeavor to be satisfied is the
ween
resisting te or natural force, t I can
resist t; but I cannot expect,