effects of intemperance," of "imprudence, of passion, or of any other vice or folly," and also "happy effects of temperance, of prudence, of moderation." Franklin reflects sturdily here, and boundlessly elsewhere, the Greek and English emphasis on the Middle Way. If this is prudential, it is an elevated prudence. The Philadelphia Library Company was born of the Junto and became "the mother of all the North American subscription libraries, now so numerous."[i-92] The colonists, "having no publick amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted with books, and in a few years were observ'd by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent than people of the same rank generally are in other countries."[i-93] It is curious that although many articles have been written describing the Library Company no one seems to include a study of the climate of ideas represented in its volumes.[i-94] One must be careful not to credit Franklin with solely presiding over the ordering of books. At a meeting in 1732 of the company, Thomas Godfrey, probable inventor of the quadrant and he who learned Latin to read the _Principia_, notified the body that "Mr. Logan had let him know he would willingly give his advice of the choice of the books ... the Committee esteeming Mr. Logan to be a Gentleman of universal learning, and the best judge of books in these parts, ordered that Mr. Godfrey should wait on him and request him to favour them with a catalogue of suitable books."[i-95] The first order included: Puffendorf's _Introduction_ and _Laws of Nature_, Hayes upon Fluxions, Keill's _Astronomical Lectures_, Sidney on Government, Gordon and Trenchard's _Cato's Letters_, the _Spectator_, _Guardian_, _Tatler_, L'Hospital's _Conic Sections_, Addison's works, Xenophon's _Memorabilia_, Palladio, Evelyn, Abridgement of Philosophical Transactions, 'sGravesande's _Natural Philosophy_, Homer's _Odyssey_ and _Iliad_, Bayle's _Critical Dictionary_, and Dryden's _Virgil_. As a gift Peter Collinson included Newton's _Principia_ in the order. The ancient phalanxes were thoroughly routed! Then there is the MS "List of Books of the Original Philadelphia Library in Franklin's Handwriting"[i-96] which lends recruits to the modern battalions. Included in this list are: Fontenelle on Oracles, Woodward's _Natural History of Fossils_ and _Natural History of the Earth_, Keill's _Examination of Burnet's Theory of the Earth_, _Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Surgery at Paris_, William Petty's _Essays_, Voltaire's _Elements of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy_, Halley's _Astronomical Tables_, Hill's _Review of the Works of the Royal Society_, Montesquieu's _Spirit of Laws_, Burlamaqui's _Principles of Natural Law_ and _Principles of Politic Law_, Bolingbroke's _Letters on the Study and Use of History_, and Conyer Middleton's _Miscellaneous Works_. From the volumes owned by the Library Company in 1757 it would have been possible