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108. Nor is it a question of the right of a majority, as a majority, to resist: it may be the duty of a helpless minority

109. Some general questions which the good citizen may put to himself in such dilemmas

110. They can, indeed, seldom be applied by the agents at the time as they can be after the event

111. In simple cases we may judge of the right or wrong of an act by the character which it expresses, but generally we can only judge them by its results

112. All that the historian can say is that on the whole the best character is likely to produce the best results, notwithstanding various appearances to the contrary.

G. Will, not force, is the basis of the state.

113. The doctrines which explain political obligation by contract agree in treating sovereign and subject apart, whereas they are correlative

114. For the desire for freedom in the individual is no real desire unless he is one of a society which recognises it. (Slaves are not a real exception to this)

115. And without an authority embodied in civil institutions he would not have the elementary idea of right which enables him to question the authority