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(5 pp) Benjamin Franklin was a successful American
of many accomplishments in many different areas.
It would be easier to attribute his success to
birth right, such as rank and wealth, but Franklin
was the youngest of seventeen, and indentured to
his brother at an early age as a printer. Did he
have a secret for his success? He thought so, and
attributed it to the ability to "reason."
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It would be easier to attribute his success to birth right, such as rank and wealth, but Franklin was the youngest of seventeen, and indentured to his brother at an
early age as a printer. Did he have a secret for his success? He thought so, and attributed it to the ability to "reason." Neoclassical ideas The eighteenth
century, that time between 1700 and 1800, has had several labels: the Enlightenment, the Neoclassical Era, and the Augustan Age, all of them, were outgrowths of the previous century of
the individual, the Renaissance. The idea of man as an individual, rather than a cog in the human wheel, moved to man as an individual with the potential to
control his environment. This did not mean his environment at large, but rather his immediate surroundings. Franklin spoke of this neoclassical idea often in his autobiography - not
so much to point a literary finger, and say this is "a neoclassical thought, pay attention," but rather in the incidents of his life that he chose to relate and
his method of response to them. The Autobiography So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature," Franklin writes in the first part of his autobiography, "since it
enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do." I have picked a selection from the autobiography to show how Franklin is able
to put this concept to work. It is not a section from a largely significant or dramatic time of his life, but rather when he is "starting out," for
it seems that God is in the details. It also speaks to the neoclassical idea of potential, and controlling ones life in a pro-social, or positive way. Franklin has
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