성문종합영어장문(명사2) 3-2

장문 3-2

But, when, in a democratic country, we think or act politically we are no less certain that men are equal.

Or at any rate ---- which comes to the same thing in practice --- we behave as though we were certain of men's equality.

Similarly, the pious mediaeval nobleman who, in church, believed in forgiving enemies and turning the other cheek, was ready, as soon as he had emerged again into the light of day, to draw his sword at the slightest  provocation.

The human mind has an almost infinite capacity for being inconsistent.