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QUAKERS

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 709 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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QUAKERS  , originally a cant name applied in derision to the members of the Society of

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Friends, but now used without anycontemptuous significance . It was said to have originated in the saying of
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Justice Bennet at
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Derby in 165o, " Tremble (or quake) at the word of the
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Lord," but it is now certain that it was used as
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early as 1647, and arose from the
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physical manifestations of religious emotion characteristic of many of the early Friends .

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