The scene was a solitary lamppost, with a tophatted tippler leaning on it.

… through the wilderness four hundred miles or more, where no public Friend had ever travelled before: the journey was perilous, but the Lord was with him; who may, in his own time, make way for his servants in those desert places.

these laces, ribbands, and these faules

The functionalist approach of societies is catascopic. Social phenomena are conceived of as parts of a whole that are determined by this whole.