Some Fruits of Solitude - Part 1
Well I'm halfway through William Penn's Some Fruits of Solitude and I have a couple of thoughts:
1. Decent content but it is essentially just one long list. I really do enjoy the writing style and spending some time thinking about whether I agree with the content and how I can apply them to improve my life.
2. I can't understand why this was published anonymously. According to the preface he feared the retribution from the Anglican church, but I haven't seen anything that I would categorize as overly confrontational. Then again things have changed a great deal since this was published.
1. Decent content but it is essentially just one long list. I really do enjoy the writing style and spending some time thinking about whether I agree with the content and how I can apply them to improve my life.
2. I can't understand why this was published anonymously. According to the preface he feared the retribution from the Anglican church, but I haven't seen anything that I would categorize as overly confrontational. Then again things have changed a great deal since this was published.
posted by The Walrus at 9:12 AM
1 Comments:
A guess: the Anglicans hated everything to do with the "nonconformists," as Puritans were known in England. As such, perhaps the Anglicans would have censored it regardless of content, and that's what he feared.
But that's just a guess.
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