Fair for Its Day/Quotes

"It was a time and place, compared to say, medieval France, or 18th-century Spain, or late 20th-century Iran of astounding diversity of religious views. Jew and gentile, Catholic and Protestant, Methodist and Anglican, Quaker and Baptist, and even the occasional Muslim, Druid, and atheist lived together with some mutual harassment, but, for the most part, without killing each other. It was no small achievement."

- Daily Life in Eighteenth Century England by Kristen Olsen