[Footnote i-417: One of the editors has examined the photostated _New England Courant_ in the W. S. Mason Collection. For readable accounts of this newspaper see: W. G. Bleyer, _Main Currents in the History of American Journalism_, chaps. I-II; C. A. Duniway, _The Development of Freedom of the Press in Massachusetts_, 97-103; W. C. Ford, "Franklin's New England Courant," _Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society_, LVII, 336-53 (April, 1924); H. F. Kane, "James Franklin Senior, Printer of Boston and Newport," _American Collector_, III, 17-26 (Oct., 1926).] [Footnote i-418: See _Writings_, II, 52-3.] [Footnote i-419: One of the editors has used the Huth copy now possessed by W. S. Mason. Not included in the Sparks, Bigelow, or Smyth editions of his works, it was printed by Parton as an Appendix to his _Life_; by I. W. Riley, _op. cit._, and recently edited by L. C. Wroth for The Facsimile Text Society.] [Footnote i-420: Franklin must have been mistaken in his belief that he set up the second edition. The work was privately printed in 1722, reprinted in 1724 and a second time in 1725. Hence Franklin really set up the _third_ edition. For an extensive analysis of this work, see C. G. Thompson's dissertation, _The Ethics of William Wollaston_ (Boston, 1922).] [Footnote i-421: Wollaston, _op. cit._, 15.] [Footnote i-422: _Ibid._, 23.] [Footnote i-423: _Ibid._, 78-9.] [Footnote i-424: _Ibid._, 80.] [Footnote i-425: _Ibid._] [Footnote i-426: _Ibid._, 83.] [Footnote i-427: It would be interesting to know whether Franklin's much discussed prudential virtues (listed in _Autobiography_) were not in part motivated by Wollaston's pages 173-80.] [Footnote i-428: _Ibid._, 7.] [Footnote i-429: _Ibid._, 26.] [Footnote i-430: _Ibid._, 63 ff.] [Footnote i-431: _Writings_, VII, 412.] [Footnote i-432: _A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity_, _Pleasure and Pain_ (London, 1725), 4.] [Footnote i-433: _Ibid._, 5.] [Footnote i-434: For an incisive exposition of the earlier and contemporary controversy regarding freedom of the will, see C. H. Faust and T. H. Johnson's Introduction to _Jonathan Edwards_ (American Writers Series, New York, 1935), xliii-lxiv.] [Footnote i-435: _A Dissertation ..._, 10-1.]