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Again, it is to be remembered that the Quaker peculiarities were not theological only, but political and social also. Everything that the Puritan system of government asserted the Quakers denied; they rendered no allegiance, owned no laws, paid no taxes, bore no arms. With the best possible intentions, they subverted all established order. Then their modes of action were very often intemperate and violent. One can hardly approve the condemnation pronounced by Cotton Mather upon a certain Rarey among the Friends in those days, who could control a mad bull that would rend any other man. But it was oftener the zealots themselves who needed taming. Running naked through the public streets,--coming into meeting dressed in sackcloth, with ashes on their heads and nothing on their feet,--or sitting there with their hats on, groaning and rocking to and fro, in spite of elders, deacons, and tithingnen: these were the vagaries of the more fanatical Quakers, though always repudiated by the