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...failed. Throughout its existence, however, the Guardian has always been something new under the sun. It has managed to present an undergraduate viewpoint without degenerating into a Junior "Annals of the American Academy," and through it all has avoided the intellectual arthritis which follows the adoption of any sectarian dogma. There will be an even better place for such a journal when the problems of peace and readjustment are the issues...
...well. He admits quite candidly that Russia's political structure since 1919 has been illiberal by Western standards, and that Stalin's foreign policy up to June, 1941, was "extraordinarily and perversely blind." This strain of independent mental toughness, of a search for concrete solutions rather than purity of dogma; runs through the whole work. Cole is no meek follower of a pre-cooked theory...
...Dogma v. Citizenship. Nor would Dr. Blanshard let his fellow Quakers take refuge in tradition, the Inner Light, the Bible, or their own definition of good citizenship. His points...
...Society. I doubt if a single eminent early Quaker can be named who consistently condemned all war. Penn, [John] Bright and [Herbert] Hoover are the only three Quakers who have ever held positions of first-rate public responsibility, and none of them found it possible to retain the pacifist dogma...
...Quakers have no formal creed; in its place they have put one great central doctrine, the doctrine of the Inner Light. What the Light reveals is left to the individual conscience; it is not imposed on us from outside. If this is correct, the attempt to prescribe the pacifist dogma is clearly inconsistent with that tolerance which the great doctrine implies...