Excerpt from An Examination of the Causes Which Led to the Separation: Of the Religious Society of Friends in America, in 1827-28 The difficulty and delicacy of this task may, in some measure, be appreciated, by bearing in mind that the Society has never adopted a formal creed; and that, with the exception of a few points em braced in the advices of its Yearly meetings, its doctrines must be sought for in the voluminous writings of its members, which, not being always clear, require to be collated with each other. It cannot be supposed that the members of a society gathered from various religious sects, and educated under such diverse influences, would all agree in every point of doctrine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.