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'What is precious in Quakerism is not so much the doctrine of the

Divine voice as that of the preliainst other voices and the reduction of the mind to a condition in

which it can LISTEN, in which it can discern the merest whisper,

inaudible when the world, or interest, or passion, are periser can never develop the actual consequences of

any systee in hu so infinitely complex, and the interaction of

human forces so incalculable'

'Many of our speculative difficulties arise from the unauthorised

conception of an OMNIPOTENT God, a conception entirely of our own

creation, and one which, if we look at it closely, has no

It is because God COULD have done otherwise, and did not, that we are

confounded Itto think that God cannot do any

better, but it is not so distressing as to believe that He h these passages were disconnected, each of them seemed to

Clara to be written in a measure for herself, and her curiosity was

excited about the author Perhaps theabout him

Baruch Cohen was now a little over forty He was half a Jew, for his

father was a Jew and his mother a Gentile The father had broken

with Judaism, but had not been converted to any Christian church or

sect He was a dialand and hter of a ed in Clerkenwell The son was apprenticed to

his randfather's trade, became very skilful at it, worked

at it himself, employed a man and a boy, and supplied London shops,

which sold his instruments at about three times the price he obtained

for the, married Marshall's elder

sister, but she died at the birth of her first child and he had been

a er now for nineteen years He had often thought of taking

another wife, and had seen, during these nineteen years, two or three

woined himself to be really in love, and to

who proposals, but in each case

he had hung back, and when he found that a second and a third had