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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
dominance of the world of thought over the world of sensation. The blameless enthusiast, well aware of the narrow powers and natural infirmities of man, yet aims at perfection from sin; and tolerating no compromise, Fox, XI. demands the harmonious development of man's higher powers with the entire subjection of the base to the nobler instincts. The motives to conduct and its rule are, like truth, to be sought in the soul. Thus the doctrine of disinterested virtue—the doctrine for which Guyon was persecuted and Fenelon disgraced—the doctrine which tyrants condemn as Chap XVI.} rebellion, and priests as heresy, was cherished by the Quaker as the foundation of morality. Self-denial he enforced with ascetic severity, yet never with ascetic superstition. He might array himself fantastically to express a truth by an apparent symbol, but he never wore sackcloth as an anchorite. Thoughts of death and hell to keep out sin were to him no better than fig- Barclay 349 leaves. He woul