The Journal of John Woolman and a Plea for the Poor (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781579101466)

Woolman's Journal was first published in 1774 (shortly after his death). His life, as recorded by himself, was the finest flower of a unique Quaker culture, whose focus, as Howard H. Brinton has put is, was not on the literary or plastic arts but on life itself in home, meeting and community, a life which was an artistic creation as beautiful in its simplicity and proportion as was the architecture of its meeting houses... Its distinguishing marks were not dogmas but practical testimonies for equality, simplicity and peace. These testimonies, once revolutionary in their social implications, were already becoming institutionalized in Woolman's time as the badges of a peculiar people. In his quiet way (he must have been the quietest radical in history) John Woolman reforged the testimonies, tempered them in the stream of love and converted them once again into instruments of social revolution.

Author: John Woolman
ISBN-10: 1579101461
ISBN-13: 9781579101466
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Language: English
Published: 08/11/1998
Pages: 254
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.26w x 0.60d