...destroying each other." Then again he says : " We make daily great improvements in natural, there is one I wish to see in moral philosophy, — the discovery...sufficiently improved to see the advantage of this ? " 1 As diplomatist, Franklin strove to limit the evils of War. To him, while Minister at Paris, belongs...

...destroying each other." Then again lie says: " We make daily great improvements in natural, there is one I wish to see in moral philosophy, — the discovery...sufficiently improved to see the advantage of this ? " 1 As diplomatist, Franklin strove to limit the evils of War. To him, while Minister at Paris, belongs...

...continues his experiments with success. We make daily great improvements in natural, there is one I wish to see in moral philosophy; the discovery of...convinced, that even successful wars at length become misfortunes to those, who unjustly commenced them, and who triumphed blindly in their success, not...

...in 1780 Benjamin Franklin said : " We make daily great improvements in Natural, but there is one I wish to see in Moral, Philosophy — the discovery...nations to settle their disputes without first cutting each other's throats." Fourteen years later the plan was discovered by John Jay, and incorporated in...

...natural philosophy, and then says: ' There is one improvement in moral philosophy which I wish to see: the discovery of a plan that would induce and oblige...disputes without first cutting one another's throats.' Priestley lamented that a man of Franklin's character and influence 'should have been an unbeliever...

...his theology. Benjamin Franklin wrote to Priestley: "There is one improvement which I wish to see, the discovery of a plan that would induce and oblige...disputes without first cutting one another's throats." A resident of the present "Wide-open " New York suspects a vein of humor in the Tammany Society on...

...destroying each other." Then again he says : " We make daily great improvements in natural, there is one I wish to see in moral philosophy, — the discovery...sufficiently improved to see the advantage of this ? " 1 As diplomatist, Franklin strove to limit the evils of War. To him, while Minister at Paris, belongs...

...Workl, Vol. 6, p. 240. [Written in 1780.] We make daily great improvements in natural — there is one I wish to see in moral — philosophy : the discovery...convinced that even successful wars at length become misfortunes to those who unjustly commenced them, and who triumphed blindly in their success, not seeing...

...many which Franklin sends from Paris : "We make daily great improvements in natural, there is one I wish to see in moral philosophy : the discovery of...convinced that even successful wars at length become misfortunes to those who unjustly commenced them, and who triumphed blindly in their success, not seeing...

...improvement in natural, there is one I wish to see in moral, philosophy : the discovery of a plan which will induce and oblige nations to settle their disputes without first cutting one another's throats." Finally, we may here record the words of an eminent Scottish jurist, Sir James Dalrymple, first Viscount...