Yet these opinions, preached and practiced by Williams, resulted in his being expelled from the community. The attempt was made to send him back to England, but he managed to get a permanent foothold in Rhode Island, where he opposed the still more liberal Quakers almost as violently as the churchmen of old and new England had opposed him. To his credit be it said, however, that he did not invoke the law against them. In action as well as in belief he marked the progress of liberal thought.
BOOK LIST
General References
Eggleston, Edward. The Transit of Civilization.
Fiske, John. Beginnings of New England. Chaps. ii, iii.
Hart, A. B. American History told by Contemporaries. Vol. I, pp. 200-272, 313-393.
Richardson, C. F. American Literature. Chaps. i-iii.
Tyler, M. C. History of American Literature. Colonial Period. Vol. I, chaps. i-ix.
Wendell, Barrett. A Literary History of America. Bk. I, chaps. i-iv.
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