On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, DAVID CHRISTENSON wrote:
> -- [ From: David Christenson * EMC.Ver #2.5.3 ] --
>
> > Quakers are often confused with Shakers and with the Amish (or is it
> Omish, as
> > you spell it?), though. I believe that the Shakers are more-or-less
> > anti-technology.
>
The Shakers were a sort of subset of Quakers, in the sense that mother
Anne and the original Shakers who came over from England to America at the
end of the 18th century had been Quakers, or some ofd them had been. But
there is virtually NOTHING that the Shakers and the Quakers have in
common, except their name! ANd, far from being ant-technology, the Shakers
actually invented a number of machines in the nineteenth-century. I cannot
offhand remember which ones at the moment... but standard labour-saving
machines, anyway, helping them in their various businesses (seed-growing
and selling, furniture-making etc). They were a very practical bunch.
Edward James
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