It matters not, how various the tempers of young persons may be, who come under it, they must submit to it.

Nor does it signify what may be the disposition, or the whim, and caprice of their parents, they must submit to it alike.

The Quakers believe that they have discovered that system of morality, which christianity prescribes; and therefore that they can give no dispensation to their members, under any circumstances whatever, to deviate from it.

The origin of this system, as a standard of education in the society, is as follows.
When the first Quakers met in union, they consisted of religious or spiritually minded men.

From that time to the present, there has always been, as we may imagine, a succession of such in the society.