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108 ON POLITICS, GOVERNMENT, AND PACIFISM
setting the ball rolling? Of course I do not in the least insist
on this particular proposal. But I do think it essential that we
should carne forward with a positive program; a merely negative
policy is unlikely to produce any practical results.
WOMEN AND WAR
Retort to American women. The "defenseless civilian"
is Albert Einstein. Published in Mein Weltbild, Amsterdam:
Querida Verlag, 1934.
In my opinion, the patriotic women ought to be sent to the
front in the next war instead of the men. It would at least be a
novelty in this dreary sphere of infinite confusion. And besides,
why should not such heroic feelings on the part of the
fair sex find a more picturesque outlet than in attacks on a
defenseless civilian?
THREE LETTERS TO FRIENDS OF PEACE
Mein We1tbild, Amsterdam: Querida Verlag, 1934.
1.
It has come to my knowledge that out of the greatness of your
soul you are quietly accomplishing a splendid work, impelled by
solicitude for humanity and its fate. Small is the number of
them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
But it is their strength that will decide whether the human race
must relapse into that state of stupor which a deluded multitude
appears today to regard as the ideal.
o that the nations might see, before it is too late, how much
of their self-determination they have got to sacrifice in order to
avoid the struggle of all against alll The power of conscience
and of the international spirit has proved itself inadequate.
At present it is being so weak as to tolerate parleying with the