The correct answer is A. According to the passage, F.W. Evans stated that the Society now had "a very different attitude", and implied that - as a consequence of the previous opposition and persecution of groups with different beliefs carried out by the Society - the ignorant or willful misconceptions of the Society were being corrected, this is evidenced by the fact that he accepted that they had misjudged Ann Lee as a witch, and that they Shakers did not necessarily think of her as a superior entity nor did they worship her.
<em>Jean-Jacques Rosseau</em> would be the correct answer.
