Conscience

by Wilhelm Mensching, A.J. Muste (Introduction)

Overview

What all this adds up to is that when you read in this pamphlet about conscience, you are listening to the voice of a conscience incarnate. When next someone who is skeptical, or perhaps cynical, about nonviolence says that it may "work" in India or when you are dealing with "civilized people like the British; but what about Hitler?" you can recall that you have listened to a man who practiced nonviolence through all the years of Hitler's regime without compromising. Nor is his pacifism a merely personal or interior attitude. The problems of the economic order, of race relations, of East-West relations, of the transformation of society and culture in the nuclear age, deeply concern him. He is one of the forerunners and earliest leaders of the nonviolent revolution which is gaining followers in many lands outside India. All of them, as well as all who as Christians may be interested in the acts of a modern apostle, should read this pamphlet.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151586597
Publisher:	Pendle Hill Publications
Publication date:	04/29/2015
Series:	Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #117
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	69 KB

About the Author

Wilhelm Mensching, a German pastor, is best known to Americans for his consistent opposition to the National Socialist movement in Germany, and for his work at Freundschaftsheim, an international training center for peace workers, which he founded after the war and now directs.
This manuscript was printed by Freundschaftsheim originally in German as Vom Gewissen, and was received by German Quakers as a helpful contribution to their thinking and to the cause of peace. Conscience has been translated into English by Ian Hagerty and Caroline Nicholson Jacob.
A.J. Muste, who has written the introduction, is Secretary Emeritus of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.