Real Revolution — Page 67
67 duly punished. . When first the human mind took this stupendous step under the impulse of divine revelation, it was a revolution that must have most severely taxed the intellectual power of the human group first addressed. Naturally for the wild people of that era the demand must have been bewildering that they should submit to the authority of one from among themselves who, against their own inclinations, would have a measure of control over what they possessed, and would in certain cases even inflict the death penalty. Quite understandably, the first general reaction to such a demand must have been a violent urge to reject and throw away this new control. "It 1 have killed a man, that is something between me and those around the man I have killed'. . Who is this man that he should interfere in what I do, or want to do? Why should I submit to his authority? He is no better than myself. Why should I let him set himself up above me?" Such questions must have naturally risen in the inind of the members of the first group to which the law was originally addressed. Not to speak of those days, even now many people with muddled minds tall into similar mental confusions, and duly established governments have often to cope with disruption caused by men of this type. It is due, in some respects, to similar confused reasoning that