Resistance to something was the law of New England nature; the boy looked out on the world with the instinct of resistance; for numberless generations his predecessors had viewed the world chiefly as a thing to be reformed, filled with '' '''evil''' '' forces to be abolished, and they saw no reason to suppose that they had wholly succeeded in the abolition; the duty was unchanged. | Resistance to something was the law of New England nature; the boy looked out on the world with the instinct of resistance; for numberless generations his predecessors had viewed the world chiefly as a thing to be reformed, filled with '' '''evil''' '' forces to be abolished, and they saw no reason to suppose that they had wholly succeeded in the abolition; the duty was unchanged. |