In the first place in no society is there so much vigilance over the conduct of its members, as in that of the Quakers, as this history of their discipline must have already manifested.

This vigilance of course, cannot miss of its effect.

But a second cause is the following.

The Quaker-laws and regulations are not made by any one person, nor by any number even of deputies.

They are made by themselves, that is by the society in yearly meeting assembled.
If a bad law, or the repeal of a good one, be proposed, every one present, without distinction, has a right to speak against the motion.
The proposition cannot pass against the sense of the meeting.