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... and it was a major factor in producing that special view of man , his needs , his rights and his works which has ... American tradition for the proposition that reflections about society should produce useful institutions for the ...
... and it was a major factor in producing that special view of man , his needs , his rights and his works which has ... American tradition for the proposition that reflections about society should produce useful institutions for the ...
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We may see him as one of those pioneers who understood that empirical science must always produce new experience which ... and that it sometimes produces ( along the way ) practical innovations of inestimable value for our health ...
We may see him as one of those pioneers who understood that empirical science must always produce new experience which ... and that it sometimes produces ( along the way ) practical innovations of inestimable value for our health ...
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so many good citizens of their properties , create universal discontent , and provoke insurrections , to the endangering of government and producing general confusion . I have therefore no doubt , but this wise council will prefer the ...
so many good citizens of their properties , create universal discontent , and provoke insurrections , to the endangering of government and producing general confusion . I have therefore no doubt , but this wise council will prefer the ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 27 |
THE LESSONS OF EXPERIENCE | 68 |
SELFIMPROVEMENT AND MUTUAL | 112 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Benjamin Franklin: His Contribution to the American Tradition Makers of the American tradition series |
| Author | I. Bernard Cohen |
| Publisher | Bobbs-Merrill, 1953 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 21 Aug 2006 |
| Length | 320 pages |
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