ENGL 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Redneck, Protestantism
25 Feb 2013
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An autobiography that is a secularized version of the protestant life. Americans were a direct show of what franklin considered to be bad. The drunkenness and the prompt blame on a divine force. Franklin considers that usage of arms, the lack of rational discussion, to be an assertion of barbarianism. Appeal to a spiritual or divine source denies human change, absolutist and bad for the public. Paved street, clean, an enlightened city that is laid out regularity, a creation of men that is rational. Franklin wasn"t an american redneck that wanted independence badly. He wanted a treaty that would be a compromise and save the two sides from direct armed conflict. The autobiography attempts to show how the small things influence the large things. A mini independence, of self from family compared to colony to motherland. Public libraries for public opinions, teaching them rational thought so that everyone could become educated.
