They contain of course _recommendations_, and suggest _prohibitions_, to the society, as _rules of guidance:_ and as they came from spiritually _minded_ men on _solemn occasions_, they are supposed to have had a _spiritual origin_.

Hence Quaker parents manage their youth according to these _recommendations_ and _prohibitions_, and hence this book of extracts (for so it is usually called) from which I have obtained a considerable portion of my knowledge on this subject, forms the basis of the moral Education of the Society.
[Footnote 4: The Book is intitled "Extracts from the minutes made, and from the advices given, at the yearly Meeting of the Quakers in London, since its first Institution."] Of the contents of this book, I shall notice, while I am treating upon this subject, not those rules which are of a recommendatory, but those, which are of a _prohibitory nature_.

Education is regulated either by recommendations, or by prohibitions, or by both conjoined.

The former relate to things, where there is a wish that youth should conform to them, but where a trifling deviation from them would not be considered as an act of delinquency publicly reprehensible.

The latter to things, where any compliance with them becomes a positive offence.