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...attitude of the University toward us has been characteristically open-minded," assert officials of the Harvard Pacifist Association, which consists of 14 men who believe that war in itself is wrong and whose conscience permits them no part in the war effort. The group meets weekly for comradeship and discussion...
Wanted. In England's New Statesman and Nation appeared a want ad: "People sharing with Siamese cat modernized 18th Century Devon house seek others for pacifist life...
...Testament was plainly one of love and mercy. But surely it was a spirit that Jesus enjoined, not an iron rule. If keeping a rule involved worse evils than its breach, Jesus broke it without a qualm. . . . It is impossible to make Jesus out to be a consistent pacifist even in personal relations, let alone international relations...
...Society. I doubt if a single eminent early Quaker can be named who consistently condemned all war. Penn, [John] Bright and [Herbert] Hoover are the only three Quakers who have ever held positions of first-rate public responsibility, and none of them found it possible to retain the pacifist dogma...
...Quakers have no formal creed; in its place they have put one great central doctrine, the doctrine of the Inner Light. What the Light reveals is left to the individual conscience; it is not imposed on us from outside. If this is correct, the attempt to prescribe the pacifist dogma is clearly inconsistent with that tolerance which the great doctrine implies...