Word: treading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notable as a cool, and rather mature statement of one phase of Pacifism. To be a pacifist undoubtedly requires a struggle. It is a struggle with more or less natural feelings, with carefully inculcated ideas, with popular opinion. One disregards the facts who considers pacifism the easy way to tread. Whether it will prove to be the best way is still a matter of opinion. In any case, there appears to be no sound reason for treating a pacifist any more harshly than a Yale man, or an Eskimo or a Baptist. Different, no doubt: but not irrevocably lost...
...WONDERFUL VISIT?A thoughtful, stimulating fantasy of an angel rushing in where fools tread...
Said he to his people: "I am about to permit you to enter into the holy of holies of another man's life . . . This is my faith spread beneath your feet: Tread softly...
Mediation is perhaps the most dangerous task that can be imposed upon a man, and I have some misgivings as to whether I am not boldly "rushing in where angels fear to tread" in the present instance. Yet the deep respect with which I regard the rights of Religion and Science, and my belief that there are others who also wish to mete out full justice, as far as possible, to the respective claims of these hoary old opponents prompt me to propose a truce, the Truce...
Sound in measured tread...