Bah! Palmer said the doctrine of nonresistance was whining cant.

Submission N. submission, yielding; nonresistance; obedience &c 743. surrender, cession, capitulation, resignation; backdown^. obeisance, homage, kneeling, genuflexion^, courtesy, curtsy, kowtow, prostration.

Obedience N. obedience; observance &c 772; compliance; submission &c 725; subjection &c 749; nonresistance; passiveness, resignation.

By the adoption of a negative prefix to reverse the meaning: as, order, disorder; pleasure, displeasure; consistency, inconsistency; capacity, incapacity; observance, nonobservance; resistance, nonresistance; truth, untruth; constraint, unconstraint.

On the other hand, those who had experienced religion were no believers in the doctrine of nonresistance.