[Footnote i-86: These and others quoted in Woody, _op. cit._, 45-6 (reprinted from Sparks, _The Works of Benjamin Franklin_, II, 9-10).] [Footnote i-87: _Writings_, II, 88.] [Footnote i-88: _Ibid._, II, 89.] [Footnote i-89: _Ibid._] [Footnote i-90: _Ibid._, II, 90.] [Footnote i-91: Questions suggestive of the Junto's interest in moral, political, and philosophical topics are: "Is self-interest the rudder that steers mankind, the universal monarch to whom all are tributaries?" which causes one to suspect that Franklin had challenged his friends with _The Fable of the Bees_; "Can any one particular form of government suit all mankind?" which may have stirred controversies in the Junto between logical relativists and historic absolutists, the realists and those motivated by a priori abstractions, as, for example, in the Burke-Paine intellectual duel; "Whether it ought to be the aim of philosophy to eradicate the passions?" which may tend to suggest that Franklin would gear philosophy to moral action rather than to arid metaphysics.] [Footnote i-92: _Writings_, I, 312.] [Footnote i-93: _Ibid._, I, 322.] [Footnote i-94: Since writing this the editors have noted Morais's fragmentary use of the Company's catalogues in _Deism In Eighteenth Century America_. For popular accounts of the general character and function of the Company see L. Stockton, "The Old Philadelphia Library," _Our Continent_, Oct., 1882, 452-9; J. M. Read, Jr., "The Old Philadelphia Library," _Atlantic Monthly_, March, 1868, 299-312; B. Samuel, "The Father of American Libraries," _Century Magazine_, May, 1883, 81-6. The ablest survey is G. M. Abbot's _A Short History of the Library Company of Philadelphia_. He lists, however, only the first books ordered in 1732 through Peter Collinson.] [Footnote i-95: Cited in Abbot, _op. cit._, 5.] [Footnote i-96: Photostat used as source is in the William Smith Mason Collection in Evanston, Ill.] [Footnote i-97: "The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, Vol. II, 1730-1742," _Collections of the New York Historical Society_ (New York, 1919), II, 146-7. See also A. M. Keys, _Cadwallader Colden: A Representative Eighteenth-Century Official_ (New York, 1906), 6-7.] [Footnote i-98: _American Philosophy: The Early Schools_, 330.] [Footnote i-99: _An Historical Account of the Origin and Formation of the American Philosophical Society_ (Philadelphia, 1914); J. G. Rosengarten, in "The American Philosophical Society," tends to agree with Du Ponceau.] [Footnote i-100: _Writings_, II, 229.] [Footnote i-101: _The History of the Royal Society of London ..._ (2d ed., London, 1702), 61.] [Footnote i-102: _Ibid._, 64.] [Footnote i-103: _Writings_, II, 230.]