148 SCIENCE PROGRESS 



One of the oddest of the remarks in this article is that the power of money- 

 making came at or soon after conversion. The article is full of cases to the 

 contran,- where money was not made till the third or fourth generation. It 

 is true that not many men already rich joined Friends. 



The really instructive fact which Dr. Hankin might have brought out, if 

 he had known it, is that these wealthy famihes nearly all leave the Society in 

 time, and join the Church. Quakerism may lead to wealth, but wealth does 

 not agree easily with Quakerism. Only the recently wealthy names in his 

 list are stiU counted among us to any extent. 



The contrast drawn by Dr. Hankin with the Mennonites is, I beUeve, real, 

 but left unexplained. These excellent people are, when not persecuted, 

 dihgent and frugal and well-to-do , chiefly farmers . They are faithful followers 

 of Scripture rather than rational Mystics, and so have never developed on 

 intellectual Hues as Friends have, nor mixed gladly with the world of 

 thought. This would be my explanation of the difference noted. 



John W. Graham. 



Dalton Hall, University of Manchester. 



