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; he was drawn into practical action, and although this led to the greatest disaster of his life, the cause was worthy of the sacrifice. It was the cause of peace. While writing _Political Institutions_ he had become more firmly convinced than ever that
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Conversations with Mr Frederic Harrison and others led to meetings of those who were sympathetic with what might be called a non-aggression policy, and Spencer was so keenly interested that in spite of forebodings he undertook some organising work, and even went the length of moving a resolution and making a speech at a public meeting. There was no direct political result of the
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Anti-Aggression League, but there was most mischievous result to Spencer.
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There was produced a mischief which, in a gradually increasing degree, undermined life and arrested work. He had now begun to descend the inclined plane which brought him down in the course of subsequent years to
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What Spencer did in connection with the Anti-Aggression movement was probably only the last straw, but he could not look back on his intrinsically right action without regret.
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Right though I thought it, my course brought severe penalties and no compensations whatever. I am not thinking only of the weeks, months, years, of wretched nights and vacant days; though these made existence a long-drawn weariness. I refer chiefly to the gradual arrest and final cessation of my work; and the consciousness that there was slipping by that closing part of life during which it should have been completed. He was too honest to profess a pleasure he did not feel in a _mens sibi conscia recti_.
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It is best, he said,
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As matters stand, he wrote,