They rebel against the yoke because it is a yoke.

And yet they accept the yoke, knowing it to be a yoke.

It comes of the devil.

You think a priest can put everything right." "No, I don't," said Phineas.
"Nothing can put you right but the fear of God; and when a woman is too proud to ask for that, evils like these are sure to come.

She would not go to church on Sunday afternoon, but had meetings of Belial at her father's house instead." Phineas well remembered those meetings of Belial, in which he with others had been wont to discuss the political prospects of the day.