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Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners,Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character, ofthe Society of Friends
by
THOMAS CLARKSON, M.A.
Author of Several Essays on the Slave Trade
New York: Published by Samuel Stansbury, No 111, Water-Street
1806
SECT. I.—Marriage—Regulation and example of George Fox, relative toMarriage—Present regulations, and manner of the celebration of it amongthe Quakers.
SECT. II.—Those who marry out of the society, are disowned—Variousreasons for such a measure—Objection to it—Reply.
SECT III.—But the disowned may be restored to membership—Terms oftheir restoration—these terms censured—Reply.
SECT IV.—More women disowned on this account than men—Probable causesof this difference of number.
SECT I.—Funerals—Extravagance and pageantry of ancient and modernfunerals—These discarded by the Quakers—Plain manner in which theyinter their dead.
SECT II.—Quakers use no tomb-stones, nor monumental inscriptions
—Various reasons of their disuse of these.
SECT. III.—Neither do they use mourning garments—Reasons why they thusdiffer from the world—These reasons farther elucidated byconsiderations on Court-mourning.
Occupations—Agriculture declining among the Quakers—Causes anddisadvantages of this decline.
SECT. I.—Trade—Quakers view trade as a moral question—Prohibit avariety of trades and dealings on this account—various other wholesomeregulations concerning it.
SECT. II.—But though the Quakers thus prohibit many trades, they arefound in some which are considered objectionable by the world—Thesespecified and examined.
Settlement of differences—Abstain from duels-and also from law—Haverecourse to arbitration—Their rules concerning arbitration—An accountof an Arbitration Society at Newcastle upon Tyne, on Quaker-principles.
SECT. I.—Poor—No beggars among the Quakers—Manner of relieving andproviding for the poor.
SECT. II.—Education of the children of the poor providedfor—Observations on the number of the Quaker-poor—and on theircharacter.
Invitation to a perusal of this part of the work—The necessity ofhumility and charity in religion on account of the limited powers of thehuman understanding—Object of this invitation.
God has given to all, besides an intellectual, a spiritualunderstanding—Some have had a greater portion of this spirit thanothers, such as Abraham, and Moses, and the prophets, andApostles—Jesus Christ had it without limit or measure.
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