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enough to carry out its sentences, and he took asan example of this the United Netherlands. Pennindeed never renounced the use of that force,which underlies the verdicts of the judge. Forhim a system of just law stood for the highestattainable. But his endeavour was to extendthis system of law beyond the confines of a singlestate to the relations between states and nations.

What remained a mere project in Europe , wasto be realised in the New World. Pennsylvania was the first pacifist state. Penn surrendered theright awarded to him by the Charter of raising amilitia, a policy that showed a high degree ofdaring in face of the Red Indians of the interior.While the other colonies waged sanguinary warsagainst these Indians, treating them as blood-thirsty savages, Penn repaired unarmed to thenative camps. He beat them in sports (jumping)and so earned their admiration, and then made atreaty of peace and friendship with them. Thistreaty, " never sworn to be never broken,"lasted seventy years, all the time that the Quakersretained the government of the colony in theirown hands. In the sanguinary war with France( I 755)» in which the Indians fought on the Frenchside, the Quakers arranged a peace with them.Even up to the present day it is said that noIndian has ever killed a Quaker, the son of hisgreat and unforgotten friend and protectorWilliam Penn.

Of course, the carrying out of the pacifistprinciple was neither a simple nor a single process.Thus, for instance, the first Quakers were not by