That Person Is Most Cultivated

The Classical City Promoted Play With Careful Solicitude, Building The Theater And Stadium As It Built The Market Place And The Temple.

Must Be Grounded In A Philosophy Whose Foundation Is On The Solidarity Of The Human Race, A Philosophy Which Will Not Waver When The Race Happens To Be Represented By A Drunken Woman Or An Idiot Boy.

My Temperament And Habit Had Always Kept Me Rather In The Middle Of The Road; In Politics As Well As In Social Reform I Had Been For "the Best Possible." But Now I Was Pushed Far Toward The Left On The Subject Of The War And I Became Gradually Convinced That In Order To Make The Position Of The Pacifist Clear It Was Perhaps Necessary That At Least A Small Number Of Us Should Be Forced Into An Unequivocal Position.

What After All, Has Maintained The Human Race On This Old Globe Despite All The Calamities Of Nature And All The Tragic Failings Of Mankind, If Not Faith In New Possibilities, And Courage To Advocate Them?

I Believe That Peace Is Not Merely An Absence Of War But The Nurture Of Human Life, And That In Time This Nurture Would Do Away With War As A Natural Process.