Friends are used to challenging themselves for not living up to their principles; the purpose of the 1984 Swarthmore lecture is to ask questions about the principles themselves, and to state the position of someone who finds it hard to accept the Quaker testimony on nonviolence because it seems to him politically timid, and of someone who cannot accept the austere moral earnestness of Quakerism because it seems to her closed to the delight of experiencing the world in its richness.

Swarthmore lecture in storage

Examines the debate about the value of the Quaker principles of non-violence and simplicity through a dialogue between the conspirator Cinna and poet Cinna from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and a modern Friend. DQMH 2015.