In the generation after Hillel, Jesus of Nazareth took Hillel’s message of love and peace a step further, saying in the Sermon on the Mount, “Resist not evil … If someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn and offer him your left … If a man in authority asks you to go one mile, go with him two … Love your enemies.” W. H. Hudson, 19th-century naturalist and novelist, argued the contrary, that we have a moral obligation to strike back against the powerful who wrong us, because it is only the fear that