The Franklin Institute: Its Services and Deserts (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

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So with Franklin, whether we regard our educational inherit ance in the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia publick library; our charitable institutions, such as the Penn sylvania Hospital, and the loans to artisans; our physical defences in the militia system; or our higher associations for the diffusion of knowledge like the American Philosophical Society, we find all originated in the mind of this many-sided man.

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