BUILDING THE INSTITUTIONS OF PEACE

The pacifist principle, so cogently expressed in the Declaration to Charles II, has led succeeding generations of Quakers to conside r the application of this principle to international affairs. William Penns Essay towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe, which proposes international machinery for keeping the peace, is the first of a series of Quaker contributions to a body of thought which has been given some practical expression during the twentieth century. Originally published in 1962, the present lecture is n ot occasion...[Read more]