Benjamin Franklin: His Contribution to the American TraditionBobbs-Merrill, 1953 - 320 pages |
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... nature . Franklin was not a product of the frontier in that he was an urban American , spending his boyhood in the city of Boston and his young manhood in the city of Philadelphia ; he did not grow up in a log cabin in the wilderness ...
... nature . Franklin was not a product of the frontier in that he was an urban American , spending his boyhood in the city of Boston and his young manhood in the city of Philadelphia ; he did not grow up in a log cabin in the wilderness ...
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... nature . - The distinction between productive usefulness and prac- ticality may best be illustrated by Franklin's research on the lightning discharge . Having discovered that a pointed conductor will " draw off " the charge from an ...
... nature . - The distinction between productive usefulness and prac- ticality may best be illustrated by Franklin's research on the lightning discharge . Having discovered that a pointed conductor will " draw off " the charge from an ...
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... nature and the facts of man - had to be embodied in experience or they were meaningless and irrelevant . Franklin's un- derstanding of nature led him to control nature's opera- tions just as his knowledge of men's actions made him a ...
... nature and the facts of man - had to be embodied in experience or they were meaningless and irrelevant . Franklin's un- derstanding of nature led him to control nature's opera- tions just as his knowledge of men's actions made him a ...
Contents
PAGE | 27 |
INVENTIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF SCIENCE | 189 |
THE STYLE OF BEING AMERICAN | 225 |
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