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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: who have a mystical belief in the rightness (and usually the
efficacy) of non-resistance. These are generally Christians, and
then their cardinal text is the instruction to "turn the other
cheek." Often they are Quakers. If they are consistent they are
vegetarians and wear /Lederlos/ boots. They do not desire
police protection for their goods. They stand aloof from all the
force and conflict of life. They have always done so. This is
an understandable and respectable type. It has numerous Hindu
equivalents. It is a type that finds little difficulty about
exemptions--provided the individual has not been too recently
converted to his present habits. But it is not the prevalent
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