A Quaker book? Stephen Cox opens the doors

‘I think Quakers are wider in their tastes.’

by Stephen Cox 29th August 2025

I own the 1883 Christian Discipline of the Society of Friends, and a stern Victorian voice it is too. Castigating all sorts of diversions – like musical entertainments – it says that ‘books may be regarded as companions’, with a clear inference that the sceptical or entertaining should be shown the door.