ABSTRACT
As Max Weber has suggested in his work on the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, perhaps Quakerism really grew in esteem because of the congruence of its doctrines with business-mindedness. And, lest they gather the impression that these are matters of far away and long ago, there would be those to instruct them in the cost of unorthodoxy today. It would be explained that although in the Western democracies resort to physical violence is infrequent, the pressures to conformity are intense. Instruction could be carried well beyond the bounds of what we ordinarily think of as civil liberties. Students will come to see that most innovators lack completely the ability to see themselves as others see them—which is to say as nuisances. There is nothing more bothersome in the entire world than to alter entrenched habits.
