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1st ed. |
| Description |
359 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: p. 351-354. |
| Contents |
Escape to the future -- Ikhnaton : the pharaoh who gave an empire for peace -- Buddha : the religious teacher who gave up God for peace of mind -- Asoka : the king who tried to merge religion and empire for peace -- Jesus : the saint who could find peace only in the coming of God's Kingdom -- Saint Augustine and Saint Francis : the city of God and the city of man -- William Penn and the Quakers : the way of love -- Thoreau : civil disobedience -- Tolstoy : Christian pacifism -- Nobel : the best minds -- Carnegie : peace through philanthropy -- Norman Angell : the illogicality of war -- Wilson : war to end war -- Gandhi : nonviolence as philosophy and technique -- Dag Hammarskjöld : peace by juridical sanction -- Peace is the way. |
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Akhenaton, King of Egypt.
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Gautama Buddha.
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Aśoka, King of Magadha, active 259 B.C.
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Jesus Christ.
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Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
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Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226.
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Penn, William, 1644-1718.
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
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Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.
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Nobel, Alfred Bernhard, 1833-1896.
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Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919.
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Angell, Norman, 1874-1967.
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Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.
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Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.
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Hammarskjöld, Dag, 1905-1961.
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Biography.
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