Product Description: This volume brings together three journals of George Fox (1624-1691) the founder of the Religious Society of Friends. It was edited by Norman Penny and first published in 1925 to mark the tercentenary of Fox's birth. The Short Journal, dictated by Fox during his detention in Lancaster prison (1663-1664), records Fox's missionary wanderings and the persecutions he faced between 1648 and 1663...read more

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Product Description: Cyrus Guernsey Pringle (1838-1911) was an American botanist who spent a career of 35 years cataloguing the plants of North America, especially Mexico. He is in the top 5 of historical botanists for sheer quantity of new species discovered - approximately 1,200 new species, 100 new varieties, twenty- nine new genera, and four new combinations...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: Rufus Jones (1863-1948) said in his introduciton, "There is no inner life that is not also an outer life. To withdraw from the stress and strain of practical action and from the complication of problems into the quiet cell of the inner life in order to build its domain undisturbed is the sure way to lose the inner life...read more

Product Description: Christianity, one kind which is practical and one that is not. We simply mean that this book does not deal with speculative problems, but with the facts of life. It is said of Socrates that he brought philosophy down out of the heavens to the earth...read more

A study of many prominent spiritual leaders of the Reformation and a history of the beginnings of the Quaker movement written by one of its best known disciples. Rufus Matthew Jones, the great American Quaker philosopher, was born in South China, Maine, in 1863. He received his B.A. degree from Haverford College in 1885, an A.M. in 1886, and an LL.D. in 1922. From 1917 to 1927, and again from 1934 to 1944, he was chairman of the American Friends Service Committee for European Relief which was founded in 1917 largely through his efforts. He was serving as honorary chairman in 1947 when the Committee was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.; He is the author of a large number of works, predominantly on mysticism. He died in 1948 at Haverford. The work is written from the sources and is a valuable addition to our knowledge of the religious and ethical forces of the period. - International Journal of Ethics Dr. Jones brings to his task unusual qualifications, unusual especially in a writer identified, as he is, with the religious group he is attempting to describe. - The Nation

Product Description: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process...read more

In this sequel to the 1912 edition of The Beginnings of Quakerism, Braithwaite examines the period of organization and growth experienced by the Society of Friends in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. It is during this period that the dynamic leadership of George Fox and William Penn transforms the Quakers into a functioning spiritual community of vocal and politically volatile religious reformers.