The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Part 7
Bonus:
I think Ben would think this was pretty cool
Summary: Ben Franklin returns to Philly, gets his printing business started, and hustles!
Commentary: As a broadly atheistic leaning agnostic, I do appreciate the idea of religion as a tool for passing down useful knowledge. Or, as Franklin says:
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 these 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.
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