[97] This was very characteristic of the man.
[98] Beaumaris is in Anglesey, so that they were to cross Beaumaris Bay to the mainland.
[99] This "curl" is two or three times mentioned. He always wore his hair long and apparently had a long curling lock behind.
[100] While waiting at Swarthmore, between the labors in Wales and the visit to Scotland, George Fox wrote several epistles. Here is a beautiful little Postscript to his epistle "to Friends":
"Postscript—And, Friends, be careful how ye set your feet among the tender plants, that are springing up out of God's earth; lest ye tread upon them, hurt, bruise, or crush them in God's vineyard."
[101] This was a great general meeting at Langlands, in Cumberland.
[102] In this discussion the Scripture arguments were gone over, and George Fox offset the proof-texts on election with passages showing man's responsibility.
[103] The Friends always refused to keep the First Day as though it were a continuation of the Jewish Sabbath. For them it was a day set apart for man's high spiritual use.
[104] The reference is to the logical definition of man as "an unfeathered biped," which is as old as Plato.
[105] Here is more of the Luther spirit. He is reported to have said: "I would go to Leipsic if it rained Duke Georges nine days running."