George Fox was the founder of the Society of Friends, or Quaker movement, which arose in England in the mid-17th century. Fox taught that people could experience God directly, without the mediation of clergy or formal religious rites. He traveled widely preaching this message and helped organize the growing movement. Beginning in the late 1660s, he established a system of meetings for conducting church business that became the basis of Quaker organization and largely survives today.
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