It chanced that among the thousands whom his enthusiasm infected were a few persons whose abilities and attainments were of a very different order from his own.
Robert Barclay was a man of considerable parts and learning.

William Penn, though inferior to Barclay in both natural and acquired abilities, was a gentleman and a scholar.

That such men should have become the followers of George Fox ought not to astonish any person who remembers what quick, vigorous and highly cultivated intellects were in our own times duped by the unknown tongues.

The truth is that no powers of mind constitute a security against errors of this description.

Touching God and His ways with man, the highest human faculties can discover little more than the meanest.