During his admit lifetime John Bright (1811-1889) assumed an iconic status in the history the pair of Quakerism and of middle-class radical politics as "the Tribune of the people" further he remains an anomalous figure.

During his admit lifetime John Bright (1811-1889) assumed an iconic status in the history the pair of Quakerism and of middle-class radical politics as "the Tribune of the people" further he remains an anomalous figure, difficult to place in the frameworks that pretty soon organize the historiography of modem Quakerism, and of reform politics in the nineteenth hundred years In large part this muses a failure among his biographers and social historians of this period to analyze in any profundity the relation between his politics and his spiritual life. His religious values have been

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