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Editor’s Note: This section regarding Wesley’s understanding of law is in its entirety, a pencil section. Did he intend to rewrite? Or erase?

121. All things being relative, law cannot indicate “rightness” or “wrongness,” but is indicative of the price society prescribes for certain types of behavior. This, one society may prescribe a high price for behavior which in another society may have no restitutional value at all.

122. There having been no “rightness” or “wrongness” to the first trespass (28, 118), a price was placed on a mode of behavior. There is responsibility for payment of the price, but no guilt based on right and wrong. (19)

123. For the civilly disobedient entity there are two choices: a) be willng and able to pay the remedy, or b) be able to find and utilize the viable legal alternative to obedience. (118)

124. Mass civil disobedience may be defined as one of two things: a) the result of a change in societal norms making the law obsolete and resulting in its change, or b) a reaction to the legislation of morality, demonstrating its invalidity as law.

125. The principles of civil law and disobedience may be applied carte blanche to physical law. (17)

126. The inability to pay the remedy is a viable legal alternative to obedience. i.e. Death releases a person from all legal obligations.

127. The person who has nothing and is willing to lose that which he or she has, is thus free to disobey at will, or to obey only him/herself.

128. It is most frequently seen that the “saviors” (those who seem to live outside the realm of physical law) have no possessions and are possessed by no one.

129. The inability to pay is one branch of the viable legal alternative to obedience that may be called negating the remedy. If the remedy is negated, the law is rendered impotent.

130. The character of a savior (128): A savior is an embodiment of the essence of humanity, demonstrating in all its limitations all its infinite possibilities.