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t to extinguish, Penn 461 but to improve the heathen knowledge. The difference between the philosophers of Greece and the Christian Quaker is rather in manifestation than in Ibid i 327 nature. He cries Stand, to every thought that knocks for entrance; but welcomes it as a friend, if it Chap. XVI.} Penn, i. 326. gives the watchword. Exulting in the wonderful bond which admitted him to a communion with all the sons of light, of every nation and age, he rejected with scorn the school of Epicurus; he had no sympathy with the follies of the skeptics, and esteemed even the mind of Aris- Ibid. i. 538; III. 53. totle too much bent upon the outward world. But Aristotle himself, in so far as he grounds philosophy on virtue and self-denial, and every contemplative sage, orators and philosophers, statesmen and divines, were gathered as a cloud of witnesses to the same unchanging truth. The Inner Light, said Penn, is the Domestic God of Pythagoras. The voice in the breast of George Fox,