It surely must give the present-day pacificists pause, if anything can do so, to find themselves mixed up with such a throng.
In the American Civil War many professed pacificists felt that for the abolition of slavery they must need take arms.
It would not be a harsh judgment to say that most of the early pacificists had some twist of mind or character that disturbed the perfect balance of their sanity.
Mr. Henry Ford's voyage to Europe on the Oscar II with a strangely assorted group of Pacificistsdoes more credit to his heart than his head, and the conflicting elements in his party have earned for his ship the name of "The Tug of Peace.
Humanitarian Pacificistsare much impressed by Germany's piteous lamentations over the brutality of the blockade.
In spite of the Premier's warning the Pacificists made another futile attempt on the very next day to convince the House that the Germans were ready to make an honest peace if only our Government would listen to it.
On the strength of this capacity for rising to the occasion one may pass over the many sittings at which a small minority of Pacificists and irrelevant inquisitors have dragged the House down to the depths of ineptitude or worse.
We pacificists must only understand that unhappily the time was not yet sufficiently developed to establish peace by the peaceful way.
Extreme pacificists shrink from fighting evil with evil, hell with hell, and advise submission to outrage, or at least taking the risk of being forced into resigned submission.
You can almost hear the guns crashing into it as he tried to write, and the atrocity reports shrieking in his ears, and the poison gas stifling him, and the militarists and pacificists raving round him.
But pacificists should not press their momentary advantage beyond the bounds of common sense.
The part ofpacificists is to avoid phrases, and deal with facts.
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