"“Perhaps the most remarkable incident in Modern History,” says Teufelsdrockh, “is not the Diet of Worms, still less the Battle of Austerlitz, Waterloo, Peterloo, or any other Battle; but an incident passed carelessly over by most Historians, and treated with some degree of ridicule by others: namely, George Fox’s making to himself a suit of Leather."
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Thomas Carlyle, in Sartor Resartus (1836)
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George Fox
1624 – 1691
Britischer Laienprediger, Begründer des Quäkertums
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