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Excerpt from Rhode Island Historical Society Collections, Vol. 8: October, 1920 All the biographers of Williams have a strong tendency to make rash statements, without full knowledge of the facts, or to pad out meager facts by more or less harmless rhetoric. Perhaps the best is that by Strauss, though even Strauss is not very admirable in his treatment of the relations between Williams and Milton. Roger Williams is not by any means fully understood yet; and there seems to me to be room for some profitable work in compiling an adequate and really reliable life of this man, so important in American history and literature, and far more important in English seventeenth century history than is generally recognized. A few other interesting statements and conjectures are found, outside the biographies Of Williams and Milton. In the Introduction to Volume III of the Narragansett Club Publications, S. L. Caldwell makes a very sane statement in connection with the possibility of Williams' having known Milton in 1643-4, which is worth quoting 23 There is no evidence that Williams was then known to Milton, although the acquaintance may have then begun of which he writes as existing during his second visit to England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.