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See also:TRYON, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1634–1703) , See also:English humanitarian, was See also:born at Bilbury near See also:Cirencester on the 6th of See also:September 1634. He had but little schooling, spending his youth first in See also:spinning and See also:carding and then as a shepherd. In 1652 he went to See also:London, apprenticed himself to a hatter, and accepted his See also:master's Anabaptist principles until he read the See also:works of See also:Jacob Behmen. He now lived a very ascetic See also:life, though he married and became a prosperous See also:merchant. In 1682 he began to publish his views in support of See also:vegetarianism and See also:abstinence from See also:alcohol and See also:tobacco. He detested See also:war, and in this and his See also:mysticism resembled the See also:early See also:Quakers. He died on the 21st of See also:August 1703.
His best known See also:book, The Way to See also:Health (1691), which much impressed See also:Benjamin See also:Franklin, was a second edition of Health's See also:Grand Preservative; or, The See also:Women's Best See also:Doctor (London, 1682). He wrote on many other subjects, e.g. the See also:education of See also:children, the treatment of See also:negro slaves, the way to See also:save See also:wealth, and dreams and visions. Some scanty autobiographical See also:memoirs were published in 1705.
End of Article: TRYON, THOMAS (1634–1703)
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