Excerpt from The Gurneys of Earlham, Vol. 1 The Gurneys of Earlham were a Quaker family, who - through their personal qualities and their self-devotion - played a more con spicuous part than any other set of brothers and sisters in the religious and philanthropic life of England during the first half of the nine teenth century. The story of several members of the family has been often told before. The public are already more or less familiar with the names of Samuel Gurney, Joseph John Gurney, Elizabeth Fry, and their brother-in law Thomas Powell Buxton; but of the united family no record or memorial has been given, telling the degree in which the wonderful har mony and unity, which no difference of mere opinion could dim or alter, influenced all their thoughts and stimulated all their actions show ing the way in which - living and working for others - they were of one heart and of one soul, neither said any of them that aught of. 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.