My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social reform I had been for the best possible. But now I was pushed far toward the left on the subject of the war and I became gradually convinced that in order to make the position of the pacifist clear it was perhaps necessary that at least a small number of us should be forced into an unequivocal position.

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