MR. WELLS AND THE QUAKERS
j To the Editor of the Sparetton.]
Sia,—I hope that those who are competent to deal with the Subject will reply to what I take to be a crude and absurd attack upon the pacifism of the Society of Friends made by Mr. Wells in The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind. Merely as an ordinary reader of the book, without connexion with Quakerism or pacifism, I feel impelled to protest against the following statement :
" Their refusal of service is not (therefore) so much an action against their own State as an incantation to that unknown unimple- melded God of Peace. In that god they put their faith—and ao gesticulating sceptical disapproval and moral superiority _ towards all who seek to subjugate chaotic by ordered force, they liberate their minds to easy and agreeable occupations."
Presumably, under these last Mr. Wells would include delousing work during a typhus epidemic. Surely all fair- minded people, however far removed from the Quaker point of view; will repudiate such a monstrous travesty of the facts. Those who are unfamiliar with the facts shbuld study the records of the relief work of the Society during and after tine War.—I ant, Sir, &c.,
A. R. CATON.
10 Palace Mansions, Addison Bridge, W. 14.
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