It is only when human nature can endure no more that protests are first heard; then armed resistance; then anarchy.
Thus it was with the French of the eighteenth century.

Thus it is with the Russian, the German, the English, the Irish peoples of to-day.

The heel of the tyrant is studded with too many steel nails to be borne without excruciating pain and without earnest protest.
If in their desperate conflict with the serpent that has coiled its slimy length about the body of the people the latter resort to dynamite, and seek by savage warfare to right their wrongs, they are to be condemned and controlled, for they confound the innocent with the guilty and work ruin rather than reform.

Yet there is another side to be considered, for when injustice wraps itself in the robes of virtue and of law, and calls in the assistance of armies and all the destructive machinery of modern warfare to enforce its right to enslave and starve mankind, what counter warfare can be too savage, too destructive in its operations, to compel attention to the wrong?
The difficulty is that vengeance should discriminate, but that is a refinement which blind rage can hardly compass.
I believe in law and order; but I believe, as a condition precedent, that law and order should be predicated upon right and justice, pure and simple.

Law is, intrinsically, a written expression of justice; if, on the contrary, it becomes instead written _injustice_, men are not, strictly speaking, bound to yield it obedience.