Love was the first motion, and then a con­cern arose to spend some time with the Indi­ans, that I might feel and under­stand their life, and the Spir­it they live in, if hap­ly I might receive some instruc­tion from them, or they be in any degree helped for­ward by my fol­low­ing the lead­ings of Truth amongst them.

—John Wool­man

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