Note 37 — Chapter III · SOCIAL POWER
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“‘And will not one man in the town help him, no constables—no law?’
“‘Oh, he’s a Quaker, the law don’t help Quakers.’
“That was the truth—the hard, grinding truth—in those days. Liberty, justice, were idle names to nonconformists of every kind; and all they knew of the glorious constitution of English law was that its iron hand was turned against them.”—John Halifax, ch. viii.