In him and those of whom he spoke I saw the abstract beauty of Quakerism.
The justice of the comparison, in the first part of the above extract, of Quakerism with Transcendentalism, may be disputed.
Quakerism is a protest against an idle, vain, voluptuous and selfish life.
Compact and quiet as it may appear, Quakerism has had its schisms and internal feuds.
Quakerism uttered a word so profound that the utterance made it insular; and, left to itself, it began to be lost in itself.
