Pacifism is not a panacea, writes Hugh Underhill; it asks only that people should relinquish the habit of deliberate imposition of suffering. It is only a beginning in terms of people’s ineluctable struggle worth existence, of their realisation of their full humanity. It is an exploratory and creative habit our living, whether collective or individual, rather than a faith or dogma. It cannot ossify into obsolescence but is constantly renewed, redefined, in the dialectic of history.