The rebels, exasperated to blindest fury, were past paying deference, or recognising authority.
"Under a Charm, Vol. III. (of III) A Novel"
E. Werner
"Born among a people," he says, "slavish, ignorant, and already entirely subjugated by priests, the Christian religion knows only how to enjoin the blindest obedience, and is unacquainted even with the name of liberty."
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
There is nothing stranger in this whole business of the life and character of war than the fashion in which an atmosphere that has been of the intensest character can, by the mere advance or retreat of a pace or two, disappear, close in upon itself, present the blindest front to the soul that has, a moment before, penetrated it.
"The Dark Forest"
Hugh Walpole