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In George Fox: Early life and activities
…and later reported in his Journal various personal religious experiences or direct revelations, which he called “openings,” that corrected, in his estimation, the traditional concepts of faith and practice in English religious life.
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In English literature: The defeated republicans
…Fox, for example, dictating his Journal to various amanuenses, dubiously claimed for himself an attachment to pacifist principles during the 1650s, whereas it was in fact only in 1661, in the aftermath of the revolution’s defeat, that the peace principle became central to Quakerism. The Journal itself reached print in…
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