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George Fox

The Quaker founder whose spiritual autobiography supplies James with one of his most vivid documents of a soul seized and remade by inward light.

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Also known as George Fox, Fox

First appearance: lecture ix conversion

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Founder of the Quaker religion, cited as an example of a religious genius with psychopathic traits.
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Fox enters the lectures as a primary witness, the kind of first-person record James prizes over secondhand doctrine. His turbulent inner life illustrates how a single dominant aim can expel its rivals and produce what…

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