Precisely in a day when the individual appears to be utterly helpless, to “have no choice,” when the aim of the “system” is to convince him that he is helpless as an individual and that the only way to meet regimentation is by regimentation, there is absolutely no hope save in going back to the beginning. The human being, the child of God, must assert his humanity and his sonship again. He must exercise the choice which he no longer has as something accorded him by society, which he “naked, weaponless, armourless, without shield or spear, but only with naked hands and open eyes” must create again. He must understand that this naked human being is the one _real_ thing in the face of the mechanics and the mechanized institutions of our age. He, by the grace of God, is the seed of all the human life there will be on earth in the future, though he may have to die to make that harvest possible. As _Life_ magazine stated in its unexpectedly profound and stirring editorial of August 20, 1945, its first issue after the atom bombing of Hiroshima: “Our sole safeguard against the very real danger of a reversion to barbarism is the kind of morality which compels the individual conscience, be the group right or wrong. The individual conscience against the atomic bomb? Yes. There is no other way.” * * * * * _Pendle Hill is a center for religious and social study maintained by members of the Society of Friends. Pamphlets and occasional books are published on matters that grow out of the current life and thought of the center. Authors of pamphlets still in print include Howard H. Brinton, Gerald Heard, Harold C. Goddard, Thomas R. Kelly, Gilbert Kilpack, and Elizabeth Gray Vining. For subscription to the yearly series of Pendle Hill Pamphlets, purchase of single pamphlets or books write_: PENDLE HILL PUBLICATIONS WALLINGFORD, PENNSYLVANIA