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Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin was a quintessential Enlightenment figure: a polymath printer, scientist, inventor, writer, diplomat, and statesman. He championed pragmatism, self-improvement through systematic virtue, and the industrious pursuit of wealth as a means to civic engagement, profoundly shaping early American identity.

PragmatismSelf-ImprovementEarly American Capitalism

WORKS

Poor Richard's Almanack
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
An Edict by the King of Prussia
Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One
Experiments and Observations on Electricity

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