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Franklin was nobody’s fool, but he sure fooled Lawrence

Ben Franklin, of all the American founders, was the least confined by the American conventions of work, ethics, and morality that he records in his Autobiography and collected in his various Poor Richard Almanacs. A careful observation of the historical … Continue reading

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D.H. Lawrence is lame

I am not a big fan of D.H. Lawrence. His critique of Ben Franklin’s autobiography is both poorly done and hypocritical. And the worst thing you can be is a hypocrite. It’s just crappy. Firstly, Lawrence speaks of the soul … Continue reading

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