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A PORTRAITURE OF QUAKERISM, VOLUME II
Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners,
Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character, of
the Society of Friends
by
THOMAS CLARKSON, M.A.
Author of Several Essays on the Slave Trade
New York: Published by Samuel Stansbury, No 111, Water-Street
1806
CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
PECULIAR CUSTOMS.
CHAPTER I.
SECT. I.--Marriage--Regulation and example of George Fox, relative to
Marriage--Present regulations, and manner of the celebration of it among
the Quakers.
SECT. II.--Those who marry out of the society, are disowned--Various
reasons for such a measure--Objection to it--Reply.
SECT III.--But the disowned may be restored to membership--Terms of
their restoration--these terms censured--Reply.
SECT IV.--More women disowned on this account than men--Probable causes
of this difference of number.
CHAPTER II.
SECT I.--Funerals--Extravagance and pageantry of ancient and modern
funerals--These discarded by the Quakers--Plain manner in which they
inter their dead.
SECT II.--Quakers use no tomb-stones, nor monumental inscriptions
--Various reasons of their disuse of these.
SECT. III.--Neither do they use mourning garments--Reasons why they thus
differ from the world--These reasons farther elucidated by
considerations on Court-mourning.
CHAPTER III.
Occupations--Agriculture declining among the Quakers--Causes and
disadvantages of this decline.
CHAPTER IV.
SECT. I.--_Trade--Quakers view trade as a moral question--Prohibit a
variety of trades and dealings on this account--various other wholesome
regulations concerning it._
SECT. II.--_But though the Quakers thus prohibit many trades, they are
found in some which are considered objectionable by the world--These
specified and examined._
CHAPTER V.
_Settlement of differences--Abstain from duels-and also from law--Have
recourse to arbitration--Their rules concerning arbitration--An account
of an Arbitration Society at Newcastle upon Tyne, on Quaker-principles._
CHAPTER VI.
SECT. I.--_Poor--No beggars among the Quakers--Manner of relieving and
providing for the poor._
SECT. II.--_Education of the children of the poor provided
for--Observations on the number of the Quaker-poor--and on their
character._
RELIGION.
INTRODUCTION.
_Invitation to a perusal of this part of the work--The necessity of
humility and charity in religion on account of the limited powers of the
human understanding--Object of this invitation._
CHAPTER I.
_God has given to all, besides an intellectual, a spiritual
understanding--Some have had a greater portion of this spirit than
others, such as Abraham, and Moses, and the prophets, and
Apostles--Jesus Christ had it without limit or measure._