Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1899

Pencil marginal notes on page 11 of Vernon H. Holloway, Religious Ethics and the Politics of Power (New York: The Church Peace Union, 1951)

 

 

 

/Holloway: “Since our optimistic [Heath writes “Christian”] dream of one harmonious world has now been shattered, we find it acutely difficult to adapt ourselves to the real world of conflicting national interests and of persistent rivalry for power and security.”/

       (Emphasis by Heath)

 

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How is it real? Is it permanent, secure, enduring? Is there no real world of contract, of freedom — of the non-coercive practice of contract — of freedom and peace? This is the kingdom of heaven that “suffereth violence and the violent (all governments) take it by force.”

 

 

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No “security” or “protection” that rests on aggression against the “protected,” such as taxation or any other coercion, can be anything itself but an aggression.