ABSTRACT
The term "Quaker" gives an indication of their nature. Traditionally, the Quakers have no holy place, do not orient their graves or their places of worship and do not wear mourning for the dead. The Quakers may be a peculiar, but they are not an exclusive, people, in the sense that they do not withdraw from the world. In the Quaker view, a right relation to the source of the experience called the Inner Light requires that there should be restriction of sensual bodily desires and that the Inner Light itself should never be regarded in other than a "pure" or sublimated way. Quakerism provides a specially interesting field for such an investigation because the bonds of its membership appear to be comparatively simple. The Quakers may be a peculiar, but they are not an exclusive, people, in the sense that they do not withdraw from the world.
