one men would be in if they wished to make a locomotive move by turning its wheels with their hands, forgetting entirely that the prime cause of its motion is the expansion of steam and not the motion of the wheels. Men who would turn the wheels with their hands and with levers would produce nothing but a semblance of motion, in the meantime bending the wheels and interfering with the possibility of the locomotive’s real motion.
It is this that men do when they want to move men by means of external violence.
Men say that a Christian life without violence cannot be established, because there are savage nations outside of Christian society—in Africa, in Asia (some people represent the Chinese as such a peril for our civilization)—and there are such savage, corrupt, and, according to the new theory of heredity, confirmed criminals amidst Christian societies; and that violence is needed for the purpose of keeping either from destroying our civilization.