Severely repressive measures were tried, but failed to extinguish Nonconformity; it stood irreconcilable outside the establishment.

That persecution which the world now visits upon them from mistaking their nonconformity for ignorance or disrespect, may diminish when it is seen to result from principle.

At the table sat an old man with broad benevolent face, high forehead, thin hair, and that smile which savors of the milk of human kindness, and in England suggests Nonconformity.