7 Frederick B. Tolles, James Logan and the Culture of Provincial America (Boston, 1957), 194.
8 Macauley, “A Social and Intellectual History of Elementary Education in Pennsylvania,” I, 671.
9 One may observe here the operation of an historical law. Egalitarian movements which take the form of “leveling down” commonly create substantive inequalities, despite their own intention, because the few will always find their own way up, against the general trend. This was equally true of dachas in Soviet Russia and learning in Quaker Pennsylvania. Movements which seek equality by “leveling up” tend to be more successful.
10 Tolles, Meeting House and Counting House, 3–11.