If general military service would tend to increase respect and obedience to external authority of this kind, it might be too big a price to pay for all its other advantages.
My belief in discipline is still alive--discipline in the sense of entire mutual confidence between comrades fighting for the same cause; but I have come to regard obedience to external authority as one of the most dangerous virtues.
Government may be self-imposed or fixed by external authority, in any case it cannot be escaped.
Socialism is a third variety of the theory that social order and efficiency depend on external authority.
Lastly, as obedience consists in acting at the bidding of external authority, it would have no place in a state where the government is vested in the whole people, and where laws are made by common consent.
In such a society the people would remain free, whether the laws were added to or diminished, inasmuch as it would not be done on external authority, but their own free consent.
The dependence therefore on apostolic teaching was not the appeal to an external authority, but merely to that which was the best exponent of the early religious consciousness of Christendom in its purest age.
In most elementary schools religion is taught on an elaborate syllabus which is imposed on the teacher by an external authority, and which therefore tends to destroy his freedom and his interest in the work.
It is the conventional type of education, with its demands for mechanical obedience to external authority, which leads through despotism to social and political chaos.
There is, then, the question whether there may be a legitimate restraint, imposed by external authority, which man must not evade, and what the nature of such restraint may be.
So long, then, as we understand by freedom a lawful freedom, there cannot be included in this the freedom from every external authority, but only from unlawful interference.
For this is clear: if under certain circumstances there might be warrant for a just restriction by external authority, such a restriction could not be refused in the name of freedom.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "external authority" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
