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The "journal" or spiritual autobiography of John Woolman was the
characteristic literary expression of Quakerism in its first two
centuries. Woolman's Journal was first published in 1774 (shortly
after his death). His life, as recorded by himself, was the finest
flower of a unique Quaker culture, Whose focus, as Howard H.
Brinton has put it, was not on the literary or plastic arts but on
"life itself in home, meeting and community," a life which was an
"artistic creation as beautiful in its simplicity and proportion as
was the architecture of its meeting houses..." Its distinguishing
marks marks were not dogmas but practical testimonies for equality,
simplicity and peace. These testimonies, once revolutionary in
their social implications, were already becoming institutionalized
in Woolman's time as the badges of a "peculiar people." In his
quiet way-- he must have been the quietest radical in history--
John Woolman reforged them, tempered them in the stream of love,
and converted them once again into instruments of social
revolution.
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