A Quaker Experiment in Government: History of Quaker Government in Pennsylvania, 1682-1783 (Classic Reprint)

It is not at all unlikely that this contribution to the early history of Pennsylvania will show a bias towards the habits of thought and action which have characterized the religion of the ancestors of the writer. If so it is unintentional. The purpose of the book is to include, with other sources of information, the contemporary Quaker view. This has been gained by a careful examination of Meeting Records and private letters of the times, and a fairly intimate personal acquaintance with many who probably represent, in this generation, in their mental and moral characteristics, the Quaker Governing Class of the first century of the province. The ordinary public sources of information have, of course, been used ;but a dependence on these alone would incur the danger, if not of misrepresenting facts, at the best of giving to them a wrong coloring.
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