The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Bicknell, Thomas Williams

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ISBN 10 : 1333620810 ISBN 13 : 9781333620813

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

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Présentation de l'éditeur

It is finished. This history, begun in my eighty-third year, 1917, was completed in my eighty-fifth, and the Foreword runs into my eightysixth. To Rhode Island rightly belongs the honor of establishing and illustrating, in a well organized commonwealth, the principles of civil and religious freedom, for the first time in the history of the world. The principle was not original with our Rhode Island founders. The struggle for soul freedom was centuries old, its fate sealed in fire and blood. A new world was needed for the expression of liberty under law of the release of the freeman from his tyrant master. Four years ago (1915) I wrote and published The Story of Dr. John Clarke. That work was the revelation of a new chapter in American history. In it I attempted to show that the founding of the towns of Portsmouth and Newport on the Island of Rhode I sland, respectively in 1638 and 1639, and the organization of the Colony of Rhode Island in 1640-41, were the first organic, wisely directed and successful ventures in civil and religious Democracy, a Free Church in a Free State. In the four years that have elapsed, while I have received many endorsements of my position, I have yet to read the first vital criticism of my position. That work declared Dr. John Clarke of Nervport, and not Roger Willianis of Proz idence, the founder of the modern Democratic State, litith freedom in religious concerns, its chief corner stone. A few years ago, in conversation with the chief professor in history of a New England college, I boldly asked, Did Roger Williams ever clearly avow the principles and doctrine of Civil and Religious Liberty before his banishment from Massachusetts Bay Colony? His reply startled me. No, and he never did aftertvards. I was prepared for the No; but not for climax, He never did afterwards. A little later I met an historical leader, the chief of a Nat
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1333620810
• ISBN 13: 9781333620813
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448
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