However it be, no one can deny that in all the present upheavals it is at least practical to discuss the ethics of revolt.
III We can count on a minority who will see wisdom in such a discussion; it must be our aim to make the discussion effective.

We must be patient as well as resolute.

We are apt to get impatient and by hasty denunciation drive off many who are wavering and may be won.

These are held back, perhaps, by some scruple or nervousness, and by a fine breath of the truth and a natural discipline may yet be made our truest soldiers.
Emerson, in his address at the dedication of the Soldiers' Monument, Concord, made touching reference in some such in the American Civil War.
He told of one youth he knew who feared he was a coward, and yet accustomed himself to danger, by forcing himself to go and meet it.

"He enlisted in New York," says Emerson, "went out to the field, and died early." And his comment for us should be eloquent.