Tad Messenger as
Albert Schweitzer

The Discovery

Albert Schweitzer

Yes, yes! The idea that the reign of peace must come one day has been given expression by a number of peoples who have attained a certain level of civilization.

In Palestine it appeared for the first time in the words of the prophet Amos in the eighth century B.C., and it continues to live in the Jewish and Christian religions as the belief in the Kingdom of God. It figures in the doctrine taught by the great Chinese thinkers: Confucius and Lao-tse in the sixth century B.C., Mi-tse in the fifth, and Meng-tse in the fourth. It reappears in Tolstoy and in other contemporary European thinkers.

People have labeled it a utopia. But the situation today is such that it must become reality in one way or another; otherwise mankind will perish.

To transcend the limits of our own thinking we must acknowledge that peace is more than the cessation of conflict. For peace to move across the face of the earth we must realize, as the great philosophers and leaders before us, that all people desire peace.

Once more we dare to appeal to the whole man, to his capacity to think and feel, exhorting him to know himself and to be true to himself.

We hereby acknowledge this truth that is universal. Now humanity must desire those things that make for peace.

We reaffirm our trust in the profound qualities of the (whole man’s) nature. And our living experiences are proving us right.

We affirm that peace is an idea whose time has come.

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