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Why did I choose to fill these pages in this particular issue with this mixture of rather tenuous reflections and autobiography??

The reason is, I think, my awareness that my remarks last quarter on pacifism may well have served to confirm the opinion of some that my tendency to skepticism and dissent gets us nowhere, and that I am simply too old to hope.

I would, however, like to suggest that, wrong though I may be, the tendency to see dilemmas rather than solutions is one of which I have been a victim ever since I can remember, and therefore not merely a senile phenomenon.

I know that one must act.

But one need not always be sure that the action is either wise or conclusive.