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The Shaker peaks at G~ are not, therefore,* a part of the new system so much as a ‘shaking-out’ of the old. The Shakers, like the Quakers to whom they were at least in part related, seem to have had virtually no formal or theological structure: in the case of the American Shakers, significantly, they seem to have believed originally in the second coming of Christ in the person (in some sense) of their female leader, Ann Lee.

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Other non-conformist and revivalist sects tended to adopt constitutions, regulations, ordinations; but not the Shakers, except of the most simple and basic kind for living communally.

(When some of the Quakers went down the road of Ordination, the movement split.)**

*(E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 10:690[:] Shakers)

**(E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 5:...[:] Friends, Society of)

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