edited by Phillips P. Moulton
This American classic communicates Woolman's ethical sensitivity that influenced eighteenth-century social thought in the U.S. and England.
In the latter part of the eighteenth century the Quaker minister John Woolman journeyed and preached throughout the American colonies. His Journal, a recognized American classic, portrays an ethical sensitivity comparable to that of St. Francis or Albert Schweitzer; and his keen sense of social injustice speaks directly to our affluent and increasingly divided mass society. His essays widely influenced social thought in the United States, and in England as well, where he was esteemed by Lamb and Coleridge. Friends United Press, softcover, 336 pages.