BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

By

PAUL ELMER MORE

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge

COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY PAUL E. MORE
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
I. Early Days in Boston [ 1]
II. Beginnings in Philadelphia and First Voyage to England [ 22]
III. Religious Beliefs.—The Junto [ 37]
IV. The Scientist and Public Citizen in Philadelphia [ 52]
V. First and Second Missions to England [ 85]
VI. Member of Congress—Envoy to France [ 109]