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Excerpt from Discourse on History
A Quaker lineage of five or six generations, is an inadequate reason for one's dissenting from the doc trine and spirit of a historian, who is asserted to be quite as near to the immediate disciples of Fox as his commentator. If such a motive could operate upon the judgment, his distorted account of the rise and history of the English Church would not be without its in?uence upon the question of appreciation. There is indeed little bias to warp or prejudice to mislead me, which is not controlled or neutralized by an antagonist in?uence. Historians, it is said, should be of no coun try, religion, or party, but I suppose the philosophy of the sentiment is satisfied with an emancipation from their sinister in?uences.
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