Introduction to Non-Violence by Theodore Paullin
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assumptions concerning such things as the aggressive nature of man is
well brought out in the study of three New Guinea tribes living in very similar environments. Margaret Mead, _Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies_ (London: Routledge, 1935). [23] Alexander Berkman, _What Is Communist Anarchism_? (New York: Vanguard, 1929), x-xi, 176. [24] Alexander Berkman, _Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist_ (New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1912), 7. [25] Berkman, _Communist Anarchism_, 217-229, 247-248, 290. Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln represented the spirit of moderation in the use of violence. He led his nation in war reluctantly and prayerfully, with no touch of hatred toward those whom the armies of which he was Commander-in-Chief were destroying. He expressed his feeling in an inspiring way in the closing words of his Second Inaugural Address, when the war was rapidly drawing to a victorious close: "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness to do the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne battle, and for his widow, and his orphan--to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations." |
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