In these courts they learn to reason.

They learn also to hear others patiently, and without interruption, and to transact business, that may come before them in maturer years with regularity and order.
I cannot omit to mention here the orderly manner in which, the Quakers, conduct their business on these occasions.

When a subject is brought before them, it is canvassed to the exclusion of all extraneous matter, till some conclusion results.

The clerk of the monthly meeting then draws up a minute, containing, as nearly as he can collect, the substance of this conclusion.

This minute is then read aloud to the auditory, and either stands or undergoes an alteration, as appears, by the silence or discussion upon it, to be the sense of the meeting.