Benjamin Franklin : $b Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notesFranklin, Benjamin
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Franklin, Benjamin
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
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suggestive survey, parts of which have been superseded by more recent
studies.)
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Levin. New York: 1929. (Lucid and penetrating survey; suggestive notes
on the influence of speculation motivated by science.)
Mornet, Daniel. _Les origines intellectuelles de la Révolution française
(1715-1787)._ Paris: 1933. (A brilliant work, concluding that without
the extraordinary diffusion of radical ideas in all classes in France,
the States-General in 1789 would not have adopted revolutionary
measures. See C. Brinton's review, _American Historical Review_,
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vogue of electrical experiments, 1747-1765.)
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1930.
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Century._ New York: 1913. Reprinted, University of Chicago Press:
1928. (Shows their radical influence. See suggestive reviews in
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Supplement_ [London], 679, Sept. 27, 1928.)
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New York: 1931. (An encyclopedic survey indispensable to all students
of the period. Enormously documented.)
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Whyte, with an Introduction by H. J. Laski. Boston: 1926. (Thesis:
"The spirit of the _philosophes_ was the spirit of the Revolution."
Highly readable, but inferior to parallel studies by Martin and Mornet
in incisive analysis of patterns of ideas. Stresses picturesque social
aspects.)
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York: 1934. (Condorcet is the "almost perfect expression of the
pioneer liberalism of the period"; he is viewed as the "last of the
encyclopedists and the most universal of all." A lucid scholarly
study, although hardly superseding Alengry's _Condorcet_.)
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