An interesting rumination by famous prison-reformer and Quaker Elizabeth Fry, who suggests that "The Mennonite, Dunkard, Shaker, Oneida Communist, Mormon and Quaker are all one people, varying only according to environment."
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I believe Dunkards was a nickname for German Baptists, the main American branch of which is now called the Church of the Brethren.
Fry's essay is very interesting. It is provocative and witty!
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