Pacifism
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Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence. The word pacifism was coined by the French peace campaigner Émile Arnaud and adopted by other peace activists at the tenth Universal Peace Congress in Gl
World Day of Prayer for Peace in Assisi, 2011
Anti-war activist arrested in San Francisco during the March 2003 protests against the war in Iraq
Vereshchagin's painting The Apotheosis of War (1871) came to be admired as one of the earliest artistic expressions of pacifism.
Penn's Treaty with the Lenape
Aldous Huxley
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Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives and poems.
Pacifism
…of Britons to be arrested in the event of a successful German invasion of Britain, included three active pacifists: Vera Brittain, Sybil Thorndike and Aldous Huxley (who had left the country). There were conscientious objectors and war tax resisters in both World War I and World War II. The United States government…
English Heritage blue plaque at 16 Bracknell Gardens, Hampstead, London, commemorating Aldous, his brother Julian, and his father Leonard
Bloomsbury Group members (July 1915). Left to right: Lady Ottoline Morrell (age 42); Maria Nys (age 15), who would become Mrs Huxley; Lytton Strachey (age 35); Duncan Grant (age 30); and Vanessa Bell (age 36)
Aldous Huxley by Low (1933)
The grave of Aldous Huxley in the cemetery at the Watts Cemetery Chapel in Compton in Surrey in 2026