Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Retrospect of Early Quakerism: Being Extracts From the Records of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and the Meetings Composing It; To Which Is Prefixed an Account of Their First Establishment
The task may be difficult and the performance rare, but a well-written autobiography is perhaps the most interesting and instructive history which we can have of a man. While it describes his actions, and delineates his character with a precision to which other pens could not attain, it correctly informs us of the motives which prompted the one, and the circumstances which formed the other. The same is true of any number of men, considered in their collective capacity. None can so certainly know their performances, none so clearly comprehend their motives, none so fully appreciate their true character, its lights and shadows, as themselves. The follow ing work is founded upon this assumption.
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