Concept
Quakers
Overview
Christian denominational family (1652–)
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In the original texts
Passages from public-domain books where Quakers is discussed.
They are therefore reduced to the necessity of subsisting upon traffic. Their children, whom the industry of their parents has enriched, are desirous of enjoying honours, of wearing buttons and ruffles; and quite ashamed of being called Quakers they become converts to the Church of England, merely to be in the fashion.
Voltaire, Letters on England
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The benediction is to be given only with three fingers. In other respects, no society can be more regular, or strict in its morals. They live like the quakers, and, like them, do not admit any other Christians into their assemblies, which is the reason that these have accused them of all the abominations of which the heathens accused the primitive Galileans: these latter, the gnostics, and with which the Roman…
Voltaire, The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia
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Would you think these people audacious enough to avow such designs in a public declaration sent to the Governor? Would you imagine that innocent Quakers, men of fortune and character, should think it necessary to fly for safety out of Philadelphia into the Jersies, fearing the violence of such armed mobs, and confiding little in the power or inclination of the government to protect them? And would you imagine that…
Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin
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Primitive human thought, 495. Prophets, the Hebrew, 479. Protestant theology, 244. Protestantism and Catholicism, 114, 227, 330, 461. Providential leading, 472. Psychopathy and religion, 22 ff. Purity, 274, 290, 348. Quakers, 7, 291. Rationalism, 73, 74; its authority overthrown by mysticism, 428. Reality of unseen objects, Lecture III, passim. “Recollection,” 116, 289. Redemption, 157. Reformation of character…
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
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The enemy, no doubt, have been told, that the people of Pensylvania are Quakers, and against all defence, from a principle of conscience; this, though true of a part, and that a small part only of the inhabitants, is commonly said of the whole; and what may make it look probable to strangers is, that in fact, nothing is done by any part of the people towards their defence. But to refuse defending one's self, or…
Benjamin Franklin, The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics and Morals of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 3 [of 3]
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Philosophers who discussed Quakers
- Edmund Burke
- John Hick
- Philip K. Dick
- Sam Harris
- David Pearce (philosopher)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Thomas Paine
- Voltaire
- Henry More
- Walt Whitman
- Ullin Place
- Elisabeth of the Palatinate
- Constantin François Chassebœuf, comte de Volney
Related ideas
- Washington, D.C.
- Anglicanism
- Letters on the English
- Holy Spirit
- Industrial Revolution
- Atheism
- Judaism
- Lebanon
- London
- Kenya
- Hypocrisy
- Doctrine
- Madagascar
- BBC
- Muslims
- North America
- Natural selection
- New England
- Ottoman Empire
- Paganism
- Puritans
- Peer review
- Rwanda
- Protestantism
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Liberalism.