Introduction to Non-Violence by Theodore Paullin
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of violence to achieve an unjust end and its use as police action in
defence of the rule of law." _Case Against Pacifism_, 85. [15] Clarence Marsh Case, _Non-Violent Coercion_ (New York: Century, 1923), 323. Italics mine. [16] C. J. Cadoux has clearly stated his position in these words: "He [the pacifist] will confine himself to those methods of pressure which are either wholly non-coercive or are coercive in a strictly non-injurious way, foregoing altogether such injurious methods of coercion as torture, mutilation, or homicide: that is to say, he will refrain from war." _Christian Pacifism_, 65-66. [17] Maurice L. Rowntree, _Mankind Set Free_ (London: Cape, 1939), 80-81. II. VIOLENCE WITHOUT HATE Occasions may arise in which a man who genuinely abhors violence confronts an almost insoluble dilemma. On the one hand he may be faced with the imminent triumph of some almost insufferable evil; on the other, he may feel that the only available means of opposing that evil is violence, which is in itself evil.[19] In such a situation, the choice made by any individual depends upon his own subjective scale of values. The pacifist is convinced that for him |
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