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better if I conclude with some of the maxims of Benjamin Franklin,
which he put into practice in the course of his own life. Beginning
the world without any capital, but possessing perseverance,
temperance and industry, without which the brightest talents never
fully fructify, he finished his career as a statesman and man of
science. Were Franklin alive now, he would be surprised to see one
of the wonderful results that is to be traced to his own early
scientific discoveries, in the Atlantic telegraph, which unites the
country of his birth to England. In the year 1747, he instituted
those brilliant experiments which have given to his name such
celebrity in the annals of electric science. In 1752, he succeeded
in demonstrating the identity of electricity and lightning, having
observed their resemblance for many years previous, although his
preconceived notions on this subject, transmitted in a series of
letters to London, were received with roars of laughter by the
members of the Royal Society. The following preliminary address to
the Pennsylvania Almanac, entitled " Poor Richard's Almanac," for
the year 1758, which Franklin published for twenty-five years, will
show, on a comparison with the dates mentioned above, that while
conducting these interesting experi...
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