My circumstances, however, grew daily easier. I was indebted for my printing house I had a young family coming on to be educated, and I had two competitors to contend with for business, who were established in the place before me. I spent no time in taverns, games, or frolics of any kind and my industry in my business continued as indefatigable as it was necessary. Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself. This library afforded me the means of improvement by constant study, for which I set apart an hour or two each day and thus repair'd in some degree the loss of the learned education my father once intended for me. They also reflect some of his ideas about a daily schedule. The passages selected here from his autobiography emphasize his philosophical reactions to some of the popular concepts of the Enlightenment. From the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklinīenjamin Franklin was the foremost disciple of the Enlightenment in the colonies moreover he was recognized in the sophisticated intellectual circles of Europe for his scientific experiments and his scientific knowledge.
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