f all war is fear." He taught that we must fearlessly love even the men we cannot trust, for the enemy was war itself, and peace could not be brought about by hatred. "Peace does not consist in one man, one party, one nation, crushing and dominating everyone else. Peace exists where men who have the power to be enemies are, instead, friends by reason of the sacrifices that they have made in order to meet one another on a higher level, where the differences between them are no longer a source of conflict. By such reasoning, Merton brought himself very near to Gandhi's position on war as well as that of the struggle for civil rights. He saw nonviolence as not merely the only just means but also the only practicable one of resisting evil and injustice. Merton believed the Gandhian t
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