the 1930s, De Ligt also promoted the ideas of Simone Weil. De Ligt's ideas were especially influential in Britain; they strongly influenced the British No More War Movement. Writing in the pacifist magazine Peace News, playwright R. H. Ward praised De Ligt as "the Gandhi of the West". De Ligt's last work was a biography of Desiderius Erasmus, whom Van Den Dungen argues De Ligt strongly identified with: "He recognized in Erasmus a kindred spirit who.. had fought,..not only against war and violence, but also for the idea of free thought and for the liberation of humanity". In 1938, after a brief illness, he collapsed from exhaustion and died at the railway station in Nantes. The Conquest of Violence The Conquest of Violence : an Essay on War and Revolution is a book written by De Ligt which deals with non-violent resistance in part inspired by the ideas of Gandhi, and details his rejection of antisemitism, militarism, imperialism, capitalism, fascism and Bolshevism. The Conquest of Violence drew on British philosopher Gerald Heard's idea that human aggression had become "a useless evil" with the advent of industrialized warfare. Anarchist historian George Woodcock reports that The Conquest of Violence "was read widely by British and American pacifists during the 1930s and led many of them to adopt an anarchistic point of view". Major writings The Conquest of Violence : an Essay on War and Revolution, introduction by Aldous Huxley ; new introduction by Peter van den Dungen ; translated by Honor Tracy from the French text revised and enlarged by the author. Pluto ; Winchester, MA, USA : La Paix Créatrice; Histoire des Principes et des Tactiques de L'Action Directe Contre la Guerre, 2 vols., Paris, Marcell Riviere, (1934). Erasmus, Arnhem, (1936). See also List of peace activists Notes References 1883 births 1938 deaths 20th-century Dutch Calvinist and Reformed ministers Anarcho-pacifists Anarcho-syndicalists Anti-fascists Calvinist pacifists Calvinist and Reformed Christian socialists Christian anarchists Dutch anarchists Dutch anti-capitalists Dutch Christian pacifists Dutch humanists Dutch members of the Dutch Reformed Church Dutch pacifists Dutch socialists Former Calvinist and Reformed Christians League of Christian Socialists politicians People from Houten Utrecht University alumni