Finally, the highly-esteemed British-American philosopher and psychologist Raymon B. Cattell (born 1905) stated,

“Civil disobedience” was blown up into a saintly cult by Gandhi, and masqueraded as a vague new religion (especially among the literati) only because the tradition of the English Christian gentleman made massive executions impossible. When the English withdrew, slaughter on a grand scale, as an inevitable consequence of the inherent insincerity of the mutual impositions and aggressions hidden in “passive resistance,” followed almost immediately. (A New Morality From Science: Behondism (1972) chapter 5)