He may require to enter the fold, to rouse the slumbering by a tap of His staff, to lift the sickly, to use a measure of severity with the dull and slow; but ultimately and mainly He Bases His claim to be the true Leader and Lord of men simply on His power to attract them to Him.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
This applies, not only to me, but to anyone who Bases any claim upon them.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
McCulloch Bases his justification of the intervention on much broader grounds.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae