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The Politics of Fear

The Possible Effects of Modern War Must Not Reduce Us to Inaction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

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In his reply to Philip Toynbee's passionate plea that capitulation now would be better than mutual nuclear destruction, printed along with other essays in The Fearful Choice, the Most Reverend Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, stated that “for all I know it is within the providence of God that the human race should destroy itself in this manner. There is no evidence that the human race is to last for ever and plenty of Scripture to the contrary effect.“

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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1960

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