The Society For Useful Knowledge (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
His printing business was flourishing and he had begun a series of successful commercial partnerships in the other colonies. He was ensconced in the comforting embrace of the interlocking social and intellectual circles provided by the Junto, the Library Company, and the Masonic lodge. Franklin busied himself with the study of French, Italian, and other languages in order to gain access to the latest scientific developments coming from Europe. His civic ventures—improved police protection, more efficient public lighting, better street cleaning, a fire brigade and an associated fire insurance company—were in the works or already thriving. Still, he remained as restless as ever. “There were however two things that I regretted: There being no Provision for Defense, nor for a complete Education of Youth; No Militia nor any College.”1 Franklin’s dogged efforts to create a Pennsylvania militia damaged beyond repair his already difficult relationship with the provincial proprietors.
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