Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . l to iHadne>s. Nevertheless,reform «;oe^^on. The spirit •f tlie foimd- ^ -^ir^^^ ^^-.^:l^-^. Vei> iM-inam-. ?:^ - ~-^- teney, tlie leaven is there and seeretly to il> dotined end, the .-tory of the pa-t -_iviMi the key to the future. With the «tp« of 17> and fuie oiihard- > iiuinerou> thatpeaches were fe«l to pi-j:>. l*rofrssor Kalni. the Swedishnaturali>t, whoM- *• Travels into Xorth America** arestill of intere->t to the hotani-l. marveled at the profu>e-m->
Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . l to iHadne>s. Nevertheless,reform «;oe^^on. The spirit •f tlie foimd- ^ -^ir^^^ ^^-.^:l^-^. Vei> iM-inam-. ?:^ - ~-^- teney, tlie leaven is there and seeretly to il> dotined end, the .-tory of the pa-t -_iviMi the key to the future. With the «tp« of 17> and fuie oiihard- > iiuinerou> thatpeaches were fe«l to pi-j:>. l*rofrssor Kalni. the Swedishnaturali>t, whoM- *• Travels into Xorth America** arestill of intere->t to the hotani-l. marveled at the profu>e-m-> of all Iorni- of !. miil niihcr dolonni-ly :The coiuilry penplc in Swcdni and Iinland uliardth«ir turnips inoic carrfully than the peopU- here do tlu-mt e\ile frnil^. A pmlitahle, thouiili xuitwhat ciicuitcnis and in- IU.\ B.\UT1{, HIS QUAKER AND TORY. 175 volved commerce benefitted all. Toleration attractedimmigrants, and life was on a milder and easier basisthan in the Xew England Colonies, partly from thegentler orthodoxy, parti} because natural aspects wereseldom strenuous or terrible. Quakers then numbered alittle more than a third of the population, and discounte-nanced all amusements, but the rest of the people en-gaged freely in many forms of innocent enjoyment. XewEngland, under the dynasty of the Mathers, was goingthrough the blood-curdling and soul-crushing terrors ofthat religious system which to-day has its reaction inthe Free Religious Association and theRadicalClub. Whitfield for a time darkened the Philadelphiasky with the terror no man ever better succeeded inexciting, but the effect soon passed, and the mild Phila-delphians returned to their easy-going lives. Quakerismhad meant deep spiritual perception, and in the begin-ning a crusade against all accepted facts and theories ofthe time, that set th
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