At 09:53 9/3/97 +0100, you wrote:
>On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, DAVID CHRISTENSON wrote:
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>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.
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>Edward James
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The Shakers also 'invented' the infirmary, with sunshine and open windows
at a time when lots of people still thought fresh air was an evil influence.
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>Professor Edward James, Dept of History, Faculty of Letters and Social
>Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, READING RG6 6AA, UK
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Martha Bartter
Truman State University
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