Thus it was that two young men without a name, without friends, without either power or fortune, set out from College with principles totally different from those of the common people, to oppose all the world, learned and unlearned, to combat popular prejudices of every kind. Our first principle directly attacked all the wickedness, our second all the bigotry, in the world. Thus they attempted a reformation, not of opinions (feathers, trifles, not worth the naming), but of men's tempers and lives; of vice in every kind; of everything contrary to justice, mercy or truth. And for this it was that they carried their lives in their hands, that both the great vulgar and the small looked upon them as mad dogs and treated them as such.
The Rev. John Wesley AM to Samuel Sparrow, 1773
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