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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Old portraits and modern Sketches (search)
d imputation of dishonesty. To reconcile, in some degree, the discrepancy between the declarations of Cromwell, in behalf of freedom of conscience, and that mean and cruel persecution which the Quakers suffered under the Protectorate, the generally harmless fanaticism of a few individuals bearing that name is gravely urged. Nay, the fact that some weak-brained enthusiasts undertook to bring about the millennium, by associating together, cultivating the earth, and dibbling beans for the New-Jerusalem market, is regarded by our author as the germ of Quakerism; and furnishes an occasion for sneering at my poor friend Dryasdust, lamentably tearing his hair over the intolerance of that old time to Quakerism and such like. The readers of this (with all its faults) powerfully written Biography cannot fail to have been impressed with the intensely graphic description (Part I., vol. II., pp. 184, 185) of the entry of the poor fanatic, James Nayler, and his forlorn and draggled companions