A brief look at some of the Quak­er influ­ences on Walt Whit­man’s spirituality:

Whit­man absorbed deist prin­ci­ples from his father; he was equal­ly influ­enced by his mother’s Quak­er back­ground. He embraced the Quak­er empha­sis on indi­vid­ual expe­ri­ence of the divine — what Friends call the “inner light” — as well as the con­cept of “that of God” exist­ing with­in every per­son. Whitman’s poet­ry reflects Quak­ers’ rad­i­cal­ly egal­i­tar­i­an theology 

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