Download or read book The Intellectual Life of Colonial New England written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1980 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reviewer of the first edition (1936) of Professor Morison's book wrote that ...because his endeavor is to show that seventeenth century America is more knowable than we thought, and partly because his method is wherever possible objective...he comes as near success in his task as any man perhaps may come.(Nation) In his preface to the second edition, Professor Morison states that ...the intellectual life of this period might well be called the...`Early Flowering' of New England.