[True Stories from History and Biography by Nathaniel Hawthorne]@TWC D-Link bookTrue Stories from History and Biography CHAPTER IV 2/9
Well; his little plantation is now grown to be a populous city; and the inhabitants have a great veneration for Roger Williams.
His name is familiar in the mouths of all because they see it on their bank bills.
How it would have perplexed this good clergyman, if he had been told that he should give his name to the ROGER WILLIAMS BANK!" "When he was driven from Massachusetts," said Laurence, "and began his journey into the woods, he must have felt as if he were burying himself forever from the sight and knowledge of men.
Yet the whole country has now heard of him, and will remember him forever." "Yes," answered Grandfather, "it often happens, that the outcasts of one generation are those, who are reverenced as the wisest and best of men by the next.
The securest fame is that which comes after a man's death.
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