Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2025-07-19 Public domain in the USA. 461 Darrow, Clarence 1857 1938 Darrow, Clarence Seward Darrow, Clarence S. 03000189 Resist not evil $aChicago :$bCharles H. Kerr & Company, $c1902, pubdate 1903. Peter Becker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Resist not evil" by Clarence Darrow is a political-philosophical treatise written in the early 20th century. It contends that states, armies, and courts are instruments of force, that punishment fails to reform or deter, and that non-resistance and humane solidarity offer the only rational path to social health. The opening of the treatise acknowledges Tolstoy’s influence and sets out a case for non-resistance by tracing the state’s origins to conquest and its modern continuity through armies, police, courts, and prisons. It argues that militarism burdens and brutalizes society, patriotism indoctrinates obedience, and standing armies chiefly exist to control domestic workers rather than repel foreign foes. Civil government is presented as militarism in disguise, enforcing property and class rule; punishment is portrayed as vengeance masquerading as justice, with shifting definitions of crime and arbitrary, harmful penalties. Early chapters attack deterrence—highlighting the brutalizing effect of public executions and the futility of prisons—and reframe crime as a social disease rooted in poverty, environment, and heredity, noting rises in “crime” in winter, hard times, and overcrowded old countries. They conclude that just judgment is impossible, proportional punishment cannot be measured, and state penalties multiply suffering by injuring families and communities, whereas food, opportunity, and kindness would address causes. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/resistnotevil00darr 20231005104915darrow 1902 us Reading ease score: 62.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Evil, Non-resistance to Punishment Criminal law HV Text Category: Law & Criminology Category: Philosophy & Ethics Category: Sociology Category: Politics 207980 2025-07-30T08:35:27.577314 text/html 183273 2025-07-19T19:49:59 text/html 330051 2025-07-30T08:35:32.596242 application/epub+zip 328082 2025-07-30T08:35:29.049290 application/epub+zip 203105 2025-07-30T08:35:28.142265 application/epub+zip 604674 2025-07-30T08:35:35.260231 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 579595 2025-07-30T08:35:32.007257 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 183993 2025-07-30T08:35:27.276259 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 164139 2025-07-19T19:49:59 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14407 2025-07-30T08:35:35.441229 application/rdf+xml 12075 2025-07-30T08:35:28.499280 image/jpeg 2181 2025-07-30T08:35:28.356295 image/jpeg 566259 2025-07-30T08:35:27.619357 application/octet-stream application/zip en.wikipedia