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"Sense shines with a double luster when it's occur humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel price a kingdom." (William Penn)Of all original 13 colonies in America, only one owes its conception to one man, and even, Pennsylvania was but still remains destined up in the life span and personality of its founder, William Penn. Here was a man delivered into a armed service family who observed his father climb through the ranks of the 17th-century English court to become friend of the ruler, and he even considered a armed service profession for himself, and then leave everything behind to become person in the "Society of Friends", known colloquially as the Quakers.Few today know much about the Quakers. Whenever the subject of Quakerism slips into conversation, most picture a rosy-cheeked fellow in a simple dark-colored overcoat, and a wide brim head wear atop his heavy, cloud-white hair, inspired by the famous logo design of the Quaker Oats company. In spite of the stereotype, Quakers today come in every colors, styles, and sizes, with a lot more liberal folk wearing trendy haircuts, tattoos, and various piercings. They call themselves "Friends", a starkly different but very devout pursuing of God. They strive for a world empowered by serenity and popularity, an ambitious mission fueled by diversity, blind to contest, gender, or creed.As amicably harmless as the Friends might seem, there was once a time when being a Quaker was at the very best an instant conviction, and at the very most severe a death sentence. Their unorthodox ideals were considered poisonous and potentially dangerous by government bodies, who would battle again and again to stamp out the flames with their movement, but still, they weathered storm after storm. And while the peace-loving followers of Christ were famed for his or her views of tranquility, in no way were they feeble opponents. Not merely would they persevere in the face of persecution, theirs was a motion so powerful that this stood strong for centuries, and much of that was credited to William Penn's work in North America.For all his love of the sect and its own plain ways, he was himself quite a scholar, able to debate a few of the greatest imagination of his age group and earn. He was also an ambitious man who observed the answer to his people's persecution not in capitulation but in creating a new modern culture where everyone could be free to worship God in the way each experienced right. Along the way he befriended kings and scoundrels and endured at the hands of each, and then triumph regularly, until finally he experienced what was, for the folks of his faith, the best triumph of death, knowing that the colony he had founded was thriving and may likely achieve this task for generations to come.William Penn: THE LIFE SPAN and Legacy of the English Quaker Who Founded Pa chronicles the life span of one of colonial America's most important figures. You will learn about William Penn like nothing you've seen prior.
