Benjamin Franklin Research Paper

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Benjamin Franklin and The Hidden Agenda of Masonry The exceptional talent of Benjamin Franklin was great and distinct in so many different directions that you could go on and on talking about him and his list of achievements. Franklin had so many inventions, discoveries, accomplishments and events that he was intimately involved in He was a printer, author, editor, inventor, scientist, diplomat, founder of schools, postal systems, government, ambassador, speaker, philosopher, politician and Freemason. He was not only the amazing intellect, the Voltaire of Colonial America, but one of the most complex and gifted men of all times (Morgan 62). He was the Francis Bacon of his age, far ahead of the years in which he lived and the subject of criticism…show more content…
John’s Lodge so that when he applied he would not be regarded as a stranger. Others saw it merely as the funny writing of a man who knew little of the Fraternity. Whatever the reason, Franklin’s membership changed his style of writing in the Gazette. He published several stories about Freemasonry in America (Franklin 33). These became foundation stones which have become established in the early history of Freemasonry of this nation. Franklin’s entire life of public service, his boundless courage led him to express himself completely on the non-popular side of many questions. His huge ability would naturally bring him to the top. He was a member of the committee to draft by-laws for his lodge in 1732. As a result certain pages in “Liber B” were written by him. He was also elected Secretary of his lodge, which he held until 1738. Franklin was appointed Junior Warden of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania on St. John the Baptist’s Day, June 24, 1732 and became its Grand Master in 1734. Around 1738, the first rumblings of the anti-Masonic excitement shook the Masonic world nearly a hundred years later. A young man was killed as a result of a mock Masonic initiation. This situation was grabbed jumped on by a rival of Franklin, William Bradford, publisher of the “American Weekly Mercury,” as an evasion to attack Franklin about…show more content…
He improved everything which interested him, but he never tried to force his improvements into the lives of others. He could show a world a new way of making glasses, and that lightning comes down a kite string, and that daylight saving time adds to leisure, and that wit and humor win more causes than arguments, but he did not try to make laws about it. He improved the printing press, the army and navy, the common stove, ideas of ventilation, paved Philadelphia and made it a better lighted town, invented a hundred gadgets for common living, such as a three wheel clock, a combination library chair and step ladder and an artificial arm to get books from a high shelf, but he never tried to improve, change or alter
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