But, since that time, other objections have been started.

But as these have not been published (for they remain where they have usually been, in the mouths of living persons) Quaker writers have not felt themselves called upon to attempt to answer them.

These objections, however, of both descriptions, I shall notice in the present place.
As the change of the pronoun thou for you was the first article, that I brought forward on the subject of the language of the Quakers, I shall begin with the objections, that are usually started against it.
"Singularity, it is said, should always be avoided, if it can be done with a clear conscience.

The Quakers might have had honest scruples against you for thou, when you was a mark of flattery.

But they can have no reasonable scruples now, and therefore they should cease to be singular, for the word you is clearly no mark of flattery at the present day.