A

PORTRAITURE OF QUAKERISM.

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.

VOL. II.

New-York:

PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL STANSBURY, NO. 111, WATER-STREET.

1806.

HOPKINS AND SEYMOUR, PRINTERS.

DIVINITY SCHOOL

LIBRARY

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

CONTENTS

OF THE

SECOND VOLUME.

PECULIAR CUSTOMS.

CHAPTER I.

SECT. I.-Marriage-Regulations and example of George Fox,

relative to Marriage-Present regulations, and manner of

the celebration of it among the Quakers, p.

1

SECT. II.- -Those who marry out of the society, are disowned
-Various reasons for such a measure-Objection to it-
Reply, p.

8

SECT. III. But the disowned may be restored to member-

ship-Terms of their restoration-these terms censured

Reply, p.

15

SECT. IV.-More women disowned on this account than men

-Probable causes of this difference of number, p. 19

CHAPTER II.

22

SECT. I.-Funerals-Extravagance and pageantry of ancient
and modern funerals-These discarded by the Quakers-
Plain manner in which they inter their dead, p.

SECT. II. Quakers use no tomb-stones, nor monumental "in-

scriptions-Various reasons of their disuse of these, p. 27

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, p.

CHAPTER III.

33

Occupations Agriculture declining among the Quakers-

Causes and disadvantages of this decline, p.

39