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Benjamin Franklin
loving poetry and he wrote some little works.His brother encouraged him to wrote 2 ballads, so him could gel benefit of it.One of them was called The Lighthouse Tragedy, and the other one was a sailors’ song about the capture of the pirate Teach.Both of them were brilliant, and were composed like Grubstreet’s ones.Once they were published, his brother James, told Benjamin to sell them in the street.
After some problems that his brother had with the Assembly, and consequently,problems that he also had, he decided to go to New York with the help of his friend Collings,that got him a “fast ticket” in a ship.
When he arrived, the only printer was William Bradford but he couldn’t employ him.So, this man sent him with one of his sons in Philadelphia that was also printer.
He didn’t know it, but he was following his destiny, because Philadelphia would be very important in his life.
There, Bradford’s son couldn’t provide him work, but soon he find job in the printing of Keimer.
SCULPTOR OF HIS OWN PERSONALITY.-
Franklin made himself with the social and cultural materials that he had,and since he was very young, he created a way very important in the culture and society of Northamerica.
All his theory is based on 2 basic principles: his perfectionist and the help.
During his life he promoted the private enterprise to be rich.But this term had no relation with the desire of money.He considered that richness as a favor of God, and the rich as an administrator that acquired the compulsory task of share with unfortunate people.
Franklin was growing in different religious dogmas, but his more clear convictions were related to the religious unitarism.When he was 32 his father wrote him saying that his mother was complainig of having an arrian son and an arminian one.To this he answered that in the day of the Final Judgement it wouldn’t be examined what we had thought, but what we had done.
In his Autobiography is where he clearly explains his doubts, experiences and personal methods that he had to use to get to the moral perfection and the internal discipline in the studies and business.
In his Memories, Franklin tells frequently about his “errors” in his life.For him, that was very proud of being printer, the errors were involuntary mistakes that should be corrected as soon as possible.
This occured him with Mrs Read;before going to London, and without knowing how much time it took him to return to Philadelphia, he had an affair with Mrs. Read.They were even talking about marriage and they wrote letters each other.But with the life that he was having, he forgot her, and when he returned to Philadelphia, he found her marriaged.
If Franklin has an important role in the Northamerican tradition, it is because he was always working for the community, and the worked inside it, to improve it and provide it of an own philosophy.
“POOR DICK”, AN AMERICAN GUIDE.-
This is one of the most important works of Franklin, and one of the most important successes in the libraries.The [next page]