The Autobiography and Other Writings

Note PART TWO: SELECTED WRITINGS I. The Way to Wealth Plan for Future Conduct / Advice to a Young Girl / The Art of Conversation / Advice to a Young Tradesman / The Way to Wealth II. Essays to Do Good Standing Queries for the Junto / A Short Account of the Library / Fire-Fighting / The American Philosophical Society / The Pennsylvania Academy III. The New Prometheus, I: Franklin the Scientist The Young Naturalist / The Meteorologist / Experimenter in Electricity / Franklins Kite / The Lightning Rod / Humane Slaughtering / The Franklin Stove / The First American Catheter / The Glass Harmonica / Youthful Inventor / Bifocals / The Long Arm IV. The New Prometheus, II: Franklin and the Revolution The Stamp Act / After Repeal / The Weapon of Satire / A Counsel of Moderation / America in Arms / The French Alliance / Busy Days / Let Us Now Forgive and Forget / Sketch of the Services of B. Franklin to the United States of America V. The Family Man Deborah Read / Franky Franklins Death / Katy Ray / Franklins London Family / Polly Stevenson / The Shipley Girls / Deborahs Last, Lonely Years / A Thorough Courtier / The Ladies of France / A Treaty of the Heart / Rejected Suitor / Home Again VI. Something of His Religion A Practical Theology / A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain / A Reconsideration of Freethinking / Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion / A Summary of Belief / Here is My Creed Notes on the Sources The Sources Additional Reading Afterword: Imagining Benjamin Franklin document.writeln( document.writeln(