To him, love, in the most basic and Christian sense, did not require that the resister had to feel a surge of spontaneous sentiment, but it did mean that he had made a deep and sincere commitment to the other person's best interest.
In the nineteenth century by far the most distinguished heat-resister was Chabert, who deserves and shall have a chapter to himself.
But a passive resister will say he will not obey a law that is against his conscience, even though he may be blown to pieces at the mouth of a cannon.
And a passiveresister alone can remove such a superstition.
But a passive resister has to avoid even that very limited indulgence, because he can have no desire for progeny.
It may be as well here to note that a physical-force man has to have many other useless qualities which a passive resister never needs.
