The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Written as a letter to his son, Franklin's account of his life from his childhood in Boston to his years in Philadelphia ends in 1757 with his first mission to England.
"Revelation had indeed no weight with me as such; but I entertained an opinion that though certain actions might not be bad because they were forbidden by it, or good because it commanded them, yet probably those actions might be forbidden because they were bad for us, or commanded because they were beneficial to us in their own natures, all the circumstances of things considered." --from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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