John Wesley
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Wesley
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Founder of Methodism whose teaching is credited with reforming the social condition of miners, labourers, and artisans.
Nobody for a moment doubts that the teaching of Wesley, and the Methodist movement generally, did produce a great and most beneficial effect upon the social condition of thousands among the miners, the labourers, and the artisans of England.
there was here no difference between Burke and Bentham, or between Wesley and his biographer Southey.
Wesley on his death-bed wrote to encourage Wilberforce in his “glorious enterprise, in opposing that execrable villany [the slave trade] which is the scandal of religion, of England, and of human nature,” whilst Bentham in a later year wrote to express his sympathy with the exertions of Wilberforce “in behalf of the race of innocents, whose lot it has hitherto been to be made the subject-matter of …