Excerpt from The Great Work in America, Vol. 3: The Philosophy of Individual Life, Addressed to the Progressive Intelligence of the Age, August, 1927N Ow, assuming that the reader is an American Citizen, he already knows that he is pledged to the National Compact which makes him a Citizen of the U. S. A., just the same as each and every one of the other American Citizens.How does he feel about looking all this goodly company of fellow citizens in the face and tell~ ing them that he is a Pacifist and doesn't be lieve in keeping his pledge to defend his country with his life, if necessary?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.