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Excerpt from Roger Williams: A Study of the Life, Times and Character of a Political Pioneer
In pursuing this study and analysis of the character of this man, the author has thought proper to consult orig inal authorities alone, deeming the facts of history and the statements of the man himself, or of his contemporaries, and the inferences to be drawn from them, to be of more real value than the Opinions of writers, whose sources of information have been limited to the same records and documents. He has endeavored to produce only a picture of the man himself, from which the reader will be quite capable of forming opinions, unaided by suggestions from the collector and compiler of the facts.
The propriety of entering upon a study and record, such as is here presented, was first suggested to the author by his brother, George Moulton Carpenter, late judge of the United States courts in Providence. It has been a source of the deepest regret that his sudden death, before the work had hardly been begun, deprived the writer of advice and suggestion, which could not have failed to be of the greatest value.
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