…given in the New World. There were grants for New Jersey. There were grants for Virginia. There were other grants. And finally Penn approached the king, Charles II, and asked, to be given an apportioned part of the English area in the Western Hemisphere.…

…to get anything else. So Charles was more or less open to consideration and he was willing to consider allowing or permitting Penn to possess some of the land grants which the English crown held in the Western world. Of course, in that gentle situation,…

…Penn to possess some of the land grants which the English crown held in the Western world. Of course, in that gentle situation, Penn had to buy the rights to the land. He paid no exorbitant price, but it was a substantial amount for a private citizen…

…a substantial amount for a private citizen to buy an area which was later to become as large as the state of Pennsylvania. But Penn made the necessary arrangements And before he left the king, he said to him, you know, he said, I bought this from you.…

…it to me. Now, if Charles hadn't been a good-natured soul, that would have been about the last we would have heard of William Penn. But Charles was good-natured. But he said, you've paid me for it, so why pay somebody else? Oh, he says, the real owners…

…are the ones I'm going to buy it from. This was the beginning of the new attitude which was to rise with William Penn. For having gradually worked out his problems, he established himself, or was to the crown established, as the proprietor of the…

…of a new commonwealth in the Western Hemisphere. These paintings carry through the original visions and mystical experiences of Penn, and having passed through his life, show how this experience and experiment was advanced by George Washington and finally…

…advanced by George Washington and finally consummated by Abraham Lincoln. So to the people of Harrisburg and other parts of Pennsylvania, Penn is a really heroic figure and a very important one. Having gotten some land to his possession, he became aware of…

…among the people Daghana Veda who was the leader of this great league therefore had established something that was almost parallel to Penn before he got there and in so doing they could especially appreciate the idea of including him under the roof of the…

…and then accusing the Indians of cruelty if they had any reaction to try to reclaim what they had been stolen from them Penn on the on this hand therefore had a great alliance and a great leadership with these Indians they appreciated what he did they…

…word was his bond and therefore that he could be depended upon to be fair in everything in honor of this they created the Penn Peace Belt which is in Philadelphia Museum in which these motive is a red man and a white man holding hands together this…

…else must live the moment an individual takes personal advantage he endangers the whole world So in Pennsylvania, behind the trees, Penn worked out an idea that all leadership was to be aimed directly at the advancement of the understanding and insights of…

…threw him into the Bastille or something of that name the average accused person had no defense therefore the first thing that Penn decided about this was that anyone accused of anything must have adequate defense he must be able to express his own…

…of it Now, looking back on his time and looking forward to our own time, we see, it seems to me, in the story of Penn, something that we ought to all come into greater understanding concerning and adapting it to the needs of the day. I think he was…

…else today in our system we inherit from our ancestry and to give it out we must return it to our descendants to William Penn God was both ancestor and descendant he was the one to whom all things were accountable who truly never slumbered nor slept…

…combine his religious principles and his political convictions or non-political convictions if you want to look at them that way so William Penn began the very serious problem of getting people to live right it was no longer possible to do what had…

…other in the name of peace he did not believe that they should go around trying to convert each other to somebody else's beliefs so Penn made it a very simple problem he did not do what Calpheus and some of the pietists did and that is to create a…

…knows that it is not going to be equally fair for all concerned, then he has a right to decline any cooperation with him. Also, Penn was one of the first in this country to refuse to give oath in a court of law. He would not swear to any particular…

…among some of the Amish peoples and so on. They will give their word of honor, but they will not bow or take an oath. So Penn says we don't want anyone to take an oath. If what he says is true, then he says it and we believe it. If what he…

…very, very important in these groups. And for the most part in the first hundred years of the Pennsylvania experience, Penn and his descendant leaders maintained this code with considerable clarity of purpose. They opposed almost everything that was against…

…right and wanted the opportunity to live peacefully with each other Pennsylvania was the place And they came from many different areas. And Penn caused them to come to a simple conclusion. If you want to stay here, like each other. If you want to be a…

…And if you can't do that, move on. It worked. And that is the thing that's possibly the most amazing part of the whole Penn story. It was a utopia that worked. It was a utopia that could be put into practice, whereas the others all existed only on…

…be put into practice, whereas the others all existed only on paper. This was the utopia of a seasoned, mature recognition of trouble. Penn was aware of the problems of England and Ireland of his time. He saw what was making the trouble. He saw the rules…

…or the setting up of great systems or anything of that nature. The individual, in the course of his lifetime, as Penn found out, is presented with numerous problems. He must face many disasters, tragedies, sadness. He must face conditions which are…

…reaches maturity, the principles will keep him for the rest of his life. But without that foundation, there's nothing. The world that Penn ran away from was a curiously troubled one. It had passed through the execution of of the King, King Charles II, and…

…but were not able to survive except by various compromises and dishonesties dishonesty was necessary because honesty simply did not exist when Penn moved out from this background he was resolved that honesty should have a chance that it was not going to be…

…And abuses in turn must arise from ignorance. So that all of these things became part of the life principle which Penn bestowed upon the protectorate over which he had administration. He wanted everyone to become religious in his own heart. He wanted…

…is the reason for life? Are we really beings or are we puppets or marionettes? Are we actually creatures that have a purpose? Now Penn was convinced that we all have a purpose. That our purpose is to make this world a garden of Eden again as it was…

…leave also the inspiration to their young to go on and build and not to tear down. So to work with this, of course, Penn had to fight in England the entrenched selfishness. But now in this country, we are beginning to appreciate what he was trying to…

…a sense, we are a large Pennsylvania, We are much larger in size, much more complicated in our way of life. But as Penn pointed out, most of our complications are artificial. We are complicated because we decline and refuse to be simple. We must make…

…a tangle of circumstances, most of which have little or no real significance. and yet they become the dominant reason for living. Patton Penn, and we will all have to come someday to this general conclusion, was able to realize that the only way that we…

…sincere fulfillment of all the duties of mutual assistance. This is the answer to the future as well as to the past. Since Penn left us, the world has shrunk considerably. The world he knew is very sparsely civilized in comparison to our world. And yet…

…been very unkind to us. But we do not think of how often we have betrayed the divine principle in ourselves. Now Penn, working along, found other little things that made a kind of an interesting viewpoint for everyone concerned. He brought printing to…

…Franklin. and he was also a man of such basic integrity that he had a strong influence with other countries and other rulers unfortunately Penn did not live most of his life in this colony he had to go back to England and in the closing years of his…

…the unadulterated admiration for the things that he attempted and the one principled basis upon which he labored cutting away everything else Penn believed that we must obey truth Penn and for the Quakers who were with him the sermon on the mount was the…

…that he attempted and the one principled basis upon which he labored cutting away everything else Penn believed that we must obey truth Penn and for the Quakers who were with him the sermon on the mount was the truth this is more true than any…

…selfishness in a redeemed society. And society will not redeem itself while selfishness is a basic statement of its purposes. so Penn finally went back to England where he passed on after a rather difficult life imprisonment exile everything you can think…

…light to a Europe recovering gradually and painfully from the Protestant Reformation and the medievalism which had locked it in hopeless slavery. Penn was unaware, however, that slavery is not always what it seems to be. An individual can be a slave and at…

…one true point of strength the strength that it must have if it is to survive properly and that strength is the strength of love Penn was a great believer in love Love on any level and of any kind, as long as it was honest, sincere, and honorable. He…

…vast structure of ulterior motives. Today, ulterior motives have so invaded human affections that the honesty of affection is no longer certain. Paul Penn says it's going to be that way going to be that way until we change it. But we are endowed at birth…

…are necessary. When we fall, some junk dealer will take away the old metal. We can't escape it in any other way. So Penn just made a simple statement, a statement that is very good, hard to fulfill, even difficult to imagine. And it is remarkable to…

…of it also. If we took the plan for the state of Pennsylvania that was developed and incorporated by William Penn, and our modern legislators, business people, private citizens, religionists, educators, took this particular program to heart, they might see…

…they do not feel that they can do what is necessary to bring these improvements about. They have a greater strength than they know, and Penn knew that. Each one of us can go a long way to correcting the ills of our time if we do not support them,…