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The Sun In Its Glory: The Diffusion Of Jonathan Dymond’S Works In The United States, 1831-1836, Jennifer Rycenga Dec 2021

The Sun In Its Glory: The Diffusion Of Jonathan Dymond’S Works In The United States, 1831-1836, Jennifer Rycenga

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The English Quaker and linen-draper Jonathan Dymond (1796-1828) is best known for his strong philosophic articulation of the testimony against war. The first American edition of Dymond’s work, though, was published not by Quakers but by a small group of activist-thinkers in north-eastern Connecticut, the Windham County Peace Society, which issued a thousand copies of Dymond’s The Applicability of the Pacific Principles of the New Testament to the Conduct of States in the spring of 1832. Dymond’s systematic moral philosophy extended into many corners of the burgeoning philanthropic movements in New England, most notably among Immediate Abolitionists, within the Peace …


[Review Of] Till Death Do Us Part: The Letters Of Emory And Emily Upton, 1868-1870 Ed. Salvatore G. Cilella Jr., Libra Hilde Nov 2021

[Review Of] Till Death Do Us Part: The Letters Of Emory And Emily Upton, 1868-1870 Ed. Salvatore G. Cilella Jr., Libra Hilde

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