As every circumstance relating to so capital a discovery as this (the greatest, perhaps, that has been made in the whole compass of philosophy, since the time of Sir Isaac Newton) cannot but give pleasure...

It was pretty neat, really. I think it was Benjamin Franklin who said ‘Small things seem great to people of small circumstances.’ That seemed like a pretty great thing to me. It was a tremendous...

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The primary leaders of the so-called founding fathers of our nation were not Bible-believing Christians; they were deists. Deism was a philosophical belief that was widely accepted by the colonial intelligentsia at the time of...

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians told her, the only copies existed in Paris. “Yeah, here’s a rare grocery...

Benjamin Franklin was a real tomcat, no woman was safe from his lightening bolt

Ben Franklin said:”Early to bed and early to riseMake a man healthy wealthy and wise”Lately I have read the advice given to William Randolph Hearst, when a young man, by his father:”Go downtown at noon...

Tom Paine has almost no influence on present-day thinking in the United States because he is unknown to the average citizen. Perhaps I might say right here that this is a national loss and a...

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with the enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God. For, as all...

Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to produce these books? Is it possible that Galilei ascertained the mechanical principles of...