[Footnote i-379: _Joseph and Benjamin, A Conversation_, Trans. from a French Manuscript (London, 1787), 72. If this meeting never took place, the reported conversation is anything but "decidedly silly" as Ford opines (_Franklin Bibliography_, #936, 371).] [Footnote i-380: _Writings_, IV, 143.] [Footnote i-381: _Ibid._, VIII, 601. Also see IX, 53.] [Footnote i-382: _Ibid._, VIII, 593.] [Footnote i-383: Brother Potamian and J. J. Walsh, _Makers of Electricity_, 126.] [Footnote i-384: "Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, IV (1748-54)," _Collections of the New York Historical Society_ (1920), 372.] [Footnote i-385: "An Outline of Philosophy in America," _Western Reserve University Bulletin_ (March, 1896). See also I. W. Riley, _American Philosophy: The Early Schools_, 229-65.] [Footnote i-386: _Franklin, the Apostle of Modern Times_, iv.] [Footnote i-387: _Writings_, I, 295.] [Footnote i-388: _Boston News-Letter_, Jan. 17, 1744/5. Also see 1669-1882. _An Historical Catalogue of the Old South Church (Third Church), Boston_ (Boston, 1883), 304.] [Footnote i-389: _Writings_, I, 324.] [Footnote i-390: _Writings_, IX, 208.] [Footnote i-391: _Essays to do Good_, with an Introductory Essay by A. Thomson (Glasgow, 1825), 102.] [Footnote i-392: _Ibid._, 213-4.] [Footnote i-393: _Works of Daniel Defoe_, ed. by Wm. Hazlitt (London, 1843), I, 22.] [Footnote i-394: _Writings_, I, 239.] [Footnote i-395: See _New England Courant_, No. 48, June 25-July 2, 1722.] [Footnote i-396: _Writings_, I, 244.] [Footnote i-397: Consecrated to piety, Robert Boyle at his death left £50 per annum, for a clergyman elected to "preach eight sermons in the year for proving the Christian religion against notorious infidels, _viz._ Atheists, Theists, Pagans, Jews, and Mahometans...." (_Works of Robert Boyle_, London, 1772, I, clxvii.)] [Footnote i-398: _Writings_, I, 295.] [Footnote i-399: In his Introduction to _Selections from Cotton Mather_ (New York, 1926), xlix-li, K. B. Murdock agrees with I. W. Riley that _The Christian Philosopher_ (1721) represents the first stage of the reaction from scriptural Calvinism to the scientific deism of Paine and Franklin. T. Hornberger's "The Date, the Source, and the Significance of Cotton Mather's Interest in Science" (_loc. cit._) shows that "as early as 1693 Cotton Mather was expressing that delight in the wonder and beauty of design in the external world which Professors Murdock and Riley regard as deistic in tendency," that he "was unconsciously vacillating between two points of view."] [Footnote i-400: _Works of Richard Bentley_, ed. by A. Dyce (London, 1838), III, 74-5.] [Footnote i-401: _Ibid._, III, 79.] [Footnote i-402: _Physico-Theology ..._ (5th ed., London, 1720), 25-6. God's "exquisite Workmanship" is seen in "every Creature" (p. 27).] [Footnote i-403: See _A Discourse of Free-Thinking_ (London, 1713).] [Footnote i-404: _Priestcraft in Perfection ..._ (London, 1710).]