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Rupert Sargent Holland. William Penn
William Penn
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I William Penn goes to College
CHAPTER II The Early Quakers
CHAPTER III William Penn Travels
CHAPTER IV The Young Quaker Courtier
CHAPTER V Penn helps his Friends
CHAPTER VI Penn becomes a Man of Wealth
CHAPTER VII Penn in Politics
CHAPTER VIII First Visit to Pennsylvania
CHAPTER IX What Penn found in America
Footnote
CHAPTER X Troublous Days in England
CHAPTER XI Penn in Disfavor
CHAPTER XII Penn goes to America Again
CHAPTER XIII At Court and in Prison
CHAPTER XIV Penn's Work Completed
CHAPTER XV Pennsylvania under Penn's Descendants
Footnote
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Rupert Sargent Holland
Published by Good Press, 2021
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They also soon showed the English virtue of obstinacy in their cause; for no matter how many times they were imprisoned or arrested they continued steadfastly on their course. At first people laughed at the Quakers' custom of holding their religious meetings in prison just as they might have held them in their meetinghouses, but before long the laughter changed to respect, and finally became sincere admiration. The Puritans, who had themselves had to endure the same sort of treatment a little while before, could appreciate the attitude of this still younger religious movement, and though they did not sympathize with the views of the Quakers they came to admire their courageous independence.
William Penn, young as he was, saw that the Quakers stood at the opposite pole from what he had come to consider a superstitious priesthood; he saw that with them religion had nothing to do with politics or power; that it was destined to stand for a more reasonable and simple faith than any of the others then existing in England. It was the latest form of that great wave of liberty that had begun with the Reformation; and as the latest it appealed to him as the most liberal form. He had a natural interest in religion, a natural earnestness of mind that led him to study the new movement, and sufficient strength of judgment to be able to find the truth in it that was hidden from many others. Add to this a basis of heroism, inherited from adventure-loving ancestors, and it is not difficult to see how the young man was led to sympathize with, and then to adopt, the Quaker faith as his own.
