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The pacifist principle, so cogently expressed in the Declaration to Charles II, has led succeeding generations of Quakers to consider 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 not occasioned by a significant anniversary of William Penns essay, published in 1693, but by the urgent relevance of its ideas to the current international impasse.The lecture is based on the assumption that the tradition of Quaker political thinking which Penn initiated remains a living and vital one, to whose cultivation and renewal Friends can rightly devote a measure of their time, their energy and their concern. This requires that Friends think deeply about the nature of the present struggle for world power and the measures that can be taken to abate it; about the direction which existing international institutions should take in order to promote the present and the future peace of the world; and about the role of a religious society both within and without the realm of politics. Of necessity and intention, the lecture asks more questions than it can answer.

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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS:
PEACE STUDIES

Volume 12

BUILDING THE INSTITUTIONS OF PEACE

BUILDING THE INSTITUTIONS OF PEACE

Swarthmore Lecture 1962

J. DUNCAN WOOD

First published in 1962 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd

This edition first published in 2020
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SWARTHMORE LECTURE 1962

THE SWARTHMORE LECTURES

1940. THE LIGHT OF CHRIST IN A PAGAN WORLD

by John A. Hughes

1941. THE UNDIVIDED MIND

by E. B. Castle

1942. THE LAW OF LIBERTY

by Margaret M. Harvey

1943. PLANNING FOR FREEDOM

by Leyton Richards

1944. MAN, SOCIETY AND RELIGION: AN ESSAY IN BRIDGE-BUILDING

by W. Russell Brain

1945. WORSHIP AND SOCIAL PROGRESS

by Wilfred Allott

1946. THE WARRANT FOR YOUTHS SEARCH

by John Hoare

1947. THE SALT AND THE LEAVEN

by John W. Harvey

1949. AUTHORITY, LEADERSHIP AND CONCERN

by Roger C. Wilson

1950. JUSTICE AND THE LAW OF LOVE

by Konrad Braun

1951. QUAKERISM : A FAITH FOR ORDINARY MEN

by R. Duncan Fairn

1952. PREPARATION FOR WORSHIP

by Thomas F. Green

1953. REMOVING THE CAUSES OF WAR

by Kathleen Lonsdale

1954. FROM LONELINESS TO FELLOWSHIP

by Wilhelm Aarek

1955. WHERE WORDS COME FROM

by Douglas V. Steere

1956. QUAKERS AND THE RELIGIOUS QUEST

by Edgar G. Dunstan

1957. QUAKERISM AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY

by Henry J. Cadbury

1958. THE CONCRETE AND THE UNIVERSAL

by Margaret B. Hobling

1959. THE CASTLE AND THE FIELD

by Harold Loukes

1960. THE CREATIVE IMAGINATION

by Kenneth C. Barnes

1961. TOLERANCE AND THE INTOLERABLE

by Richard K. Ullmann

SWARTHMORE LECTURE 1962

BUILDING THE INSTITUTIONS OF PEACE

J. DUNCAN WOOD

FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1962

This book is copyright under the Berne Convsntion. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, 1956, no portion may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Enquiries should be addressed to the Secretary, Swarthmore Lecture Committee, c/o Friends Home Service Committee, Friends House, Euston Road, London, N.W.1

Woodbrooke Council 1962

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
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PREFACE

The Swarthmore Lectureship was established by the Woodbrooke Extension Committee at a meeting held December 7th, 1907; the minute of the Committee providing for an annual lecture on some subject relating to the message and work of the Society of Friends. The name Swarthmore was chosen in memory of the home of Margaret Fox, which was always open to the earnest seeker after Truth, and from which loving words of sympathy and substantial material help were sent to fellow- workers.

The Lectureship has a twofold purpose; first, to interpret further to the members of the Society of Friends their Message and Mission; and, secondly, to bring before the public the spirit, the aims and the fundamental principles of the Friends. The Lecturer alone is responsible for any opinions expressed.

The Lectures have usually been delivered at the time of the assembly of London Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends. The present Lecture, in abridged form, was delivered at Friends House, Euston Road, on the evening of May 25th, 1962.

A list of previous Lectures, as published in book form since 1940, will be found at the beginning of this volume, and those prior to 1940 at the end.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

THOUGH not born a member of the Society of Friends, J. Duncan Wood was bred a Quaker and cherishes among his earliest memories a childs impression of Woodbrooke where his parents were Wardens. This was during the First World War, a time when even a small boy could appreciate the contrast between the patient promotion of peace within the Woodbrooke precincts and the furious pursuit of war without. He has since spent the greater part of his life within the precincts of Quaker institutions. Educated at Quaker schools, to which he owes among other debts his passion for bird-watching, he returned after graduating from Oxford University to teach at Leighton Park. His career as a schoolmaster was interrupted by wartime service with the Friends Ambulance Unit, three years of which were spent in China. Since 1952 he has been working at Geneva on the frontier where Quaker concerns meet those of an international world which, though employing different means, works for ends to which the Society of Friends is dedicated.

CONTENTS

A QUAKER teacher of history remarked recently that he found it exhilarating to discuss world affairs with his senior pupils at a time when, as never before, we seem poised on the brink of eternity. Such joyful acceptance of being matched with the hour is as commendable as it is rare. Most of us tend to respond to humanitys present predicament with anxiety, frustration, indifference or apathyanything but exhilaration. We feel that we have been matched with an hour more dreadful than any yet recorded and, though it is largely of our own creation, beg the Lord to take it away. But many generations have felt just the same, and we should not add to our anxieties by imagining ourselves to be unique. It is therefore helpful to remind ourselves of a very early crisis and consider what happened to the prophet Elijah when he found himself face to face with the powerful opposition of Jezebel and was forced to flee for his life to a cave on Horeb, the mount of God:

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