In the beginning, this rule is to him living, visible, and tangible.

It is his father, his master, his king.

The more ignorant man is, the more obedient he is, and the more absolute is his confidence in his guide.

But, it being a law of man's nature to conform to rule,--that is, to discover it by his powers of reflection and reason,--man reasons upon the commands of his chiefs.
Now, such reasoning as that is a protest against authority,--a beginning of disobedience.

At the moment that man inquires into the motives which govern the will of his sovereign,--at that moment man revolts.