Excerpt from The World War and the Road to Peace
Much that has been spoken and written in these piping times about pacifism and the pacifist has fallen short of its purpose, and chiefly because the critics have allowed their zeal to run into violence.
A people at white heat are apt to have scant patience with lack of fervency, and to give short shrift to any who may hang back. Caution is mistaken for hostility, and doubt for treason. We are also prone to overlook the psychological fact that error is seldom if ever cured by cursing it. Wrong opinion like clay is stiffened rather than softened by fire. Men are not convinced with a cudgel, or brought to terms by recrimination.
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