¶ Franklin: Ben
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Franklin: Ben:
"Franklin was very much an operational man, first a baker and then a printer. Being involved with production in your early life is a very important kind of experience. And then he became interested in economics and homely philosophy. Anyone who is really involved in discovering principles which help other people determine how they should behave, whether Franklin or Mao, is seeking to find those generalized principles governing sociology, which even to this day has failed to discover any such laws ranking with those of science.
“If Franklin had been a large landowner, I’m sure he would never have had the creativity. I’m sure he counseled himself to be as simple as possible and to concern himself with just the truth.”
¶ Citations
- RBF to EJA: context at Fuller, R.B.: A Propos Ben Franklin, 22 Jan’73
