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Hicksite

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Hicks´ite
n.1.A member or follower of the "liberal" party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827.
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The Hicksite Quaker founders of Swarthmore were interested in higher education but were also highly practical men and women with a strong belief in the desirability of astronomy, chemistry, physics, mathematics and engineering as part of that education.
LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
But here's the paradox: any reading of Whitman will show that Hicksite Quakerism would have been much too strict for the flamboyant Whitman.
Whitman's sailors and other friends by Gould, Mitchell Santine / The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
The Society of Friends underwent a major schism in 1828, splitting Hicksite Friends, followers of Elias Hicks, from the Orthodox.
Social movements and the symbolism of public demonstrations: the 1874 ... by Sellman, James Clyde / Journal of Social History
 
 
 
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