[Rebuilding Britain by Alfred Hopkinson]@TWC D-Link bookRebuilding Britain CHAPTER III 9/14
Members of a club might well agree to expel and to cut a member who assaults another, but it would be a different matter to agree that, they should be able to order the strongest man in the club to go to his house and thrash the offender until he makes such compensation as may seem satisfactory to them.
A man who objected to be put on a "schedule" of members liable to be deputed for such a mission would not necessarily be a coward.
He might possibly think that the member assaulted did in fact deserve a horse-whipping, though he might deprecate such a proceeding, and consider that the affair, or the dispute between the parties, ought to have been dealt with by the club committee as a case for expulsion.
A hatred of injustice, resentment against wrong, if it really exists in nations and individuals, will make itself felt.
Without it, formal agreements will be found to be of little use.
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