“The essentially mystical basis of Quakerism is well pointed out, and some useful distinctions are drawn between the somewhat vehement assertions of the early pioneers and the results of modern thinking. The community of Quakers is not likely to object to the reverent, but discriminating, analysis which is here given of many current practices.”
+ Ath p50 Jl 9 ’20 370w
“The book is written in a spirit of fair-mindedness and not of partisanship.”
+ Int J Ethics 31:116 O ’20 120w
“The book, as a whole, is badly arranged and loses thereby in force. But the chief error of the author is that he has set forth as an exposition of the Quaker faith that which the vast majority of the Friends of England, as well as in America, would unhesitatingly disown, and thus he gives a wrong impression of the teachings of the body. Had the work been published as the faith of an individual seeker after truth it would merit commendation as an earnest, strong, thoughtful presentation.” A. C. Thomas
− + N Y Evening Post p12 O 23 ’20 720w
“It is when we come to intellectualize their position that the problems arise. This is the point which Mr Graham does not seem sufficiently to have apprehended, and yet it is surely the key to the whole position. His explanations and argumentations are in consequence too often extraneous, too often weakened by irrelevancies.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p434 Jl 8 ’20 1400w
GRAHAM, STEPHEN. Soul of John Brown (Eng title. Children of the slaves). *$3 Macmillan 326.1