Benjamin Franklin: “Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge” - Milestone Documents

Benjamin Franklin: “Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge”

( 1743 ) Commentary by Kirk H. Beetz, UC Davis, Emeritus
  • “The first drudgery of settling new colonies, which confines the attention of people to mere necessaries, is now pretty well over; and there are many in every province in circumstances that set them at ease, and afford leisure to cultivate the finer arts and improve the common stock of knowledge.” - “A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America”
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