If persons are not present, it is their own fault.

Thus it happens that every law, passed at the yearly meeting, may be considered, in some measure, as the law of every Quaker's own will, and people are much more likely to follow regulations made by their own consent, than those which are made against it.

This therefore has unquestionably an operation as a second cause.

A third may be traced in the peculiar sentiments, which the Quakers hold as a religious body.

They believe that many of their members, when they deliver themselves publicly on any subject at the yearly meeting, are influenced by the dictates of the pure principle, or by the spirit of truth.