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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To E. Carpenter. (search)
ightful; but I now think that if I were to live my life over again I should not outwardly join any society, there is such a tendency to spiritual domination, such an interfering with individual freedom. Have you read a little pamphlet called George Fox and his first Disciples ? I was charmed with it. Don't you remember I told you I was sure that the thou and thee of Friends originated in a principle of Christian equality? This pamphlet confirms my conjecture. In the English language of GeorGeorge Fox's time, and in most European languages now, thou was used only to familiars and equals. Kings say we, and nobles are addressed as you. The Germans carry this worshipful plurality to an absurd extent. The prince being missed by his companions on a hunting excursion, one of the noblemen asked a peasant, Hast thou seen the prince pass this way? No, my lord, replied the peasant, but their dog have passed. It was this distinction of language addressed to superiors, and to inferiors or eq