Quaker Studies Volume 7 | Issue 1 Article 5 2003 Roots and Fruits: Materials Relating to the Quaker Peace Testimony in the Commonweal Collection Christina Arber
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[email protected]. QUAKERSTUDIES 7/1 (2002) [68-78] ARBER ROOTS AND FRUITS 69 ISSN 1363-013X bers were Quakers or sympathizers. Although not a Quaker himself, this Gandhian Community was also inspired by Haggett's admiration for the Quaker faith. The small FFT library was added to Haggett's nucleus and the library which developed has always had a strong pacifist philosophy and class sections. Horace Alexander was a founding member of FFT and a fan of ROOTS AND FRUITS: MATERIALS RELATING TO THE QUAKER the collection. PEACE TESTIMONY IN THE COMMONWEAL COLLECTION That small community only lasted three years but Haggett's biographer believes that these early influences had a strong effect on Commonweal, so that the ethos shifted even more towards non-violence and 'a concept of Christina Arber pacifism which reached out far beyond the traditional anti-militarism and Shipley, England personal war-resistance, to a very critical but creative concept of replacing the destructive culture of power and greed with a caring society'.