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[Footnote i-342: Cited in B. Fa, _The Revolutionary Spirit In France and America_, 289. Fa shows that in France the ”revolutionary leaders”

who took lessons from Franklin regarded him as ”the prophet and saint of a new religion,” as the ”high priest of Philosophy.” See also E. J.

Lowell, _The Eve of the French Revolution_ (Boston, 1892), chaps. XVI and XVIII.]

[Footnote i-343: B. Fa, _The Revolutionary Spirit in France and America_, 302.]

[Footnote i-344: _Writings_, VIII, 34.]

[Footnote i-345: _Ibid._, VIII, 452; June 7, 1782 (to Joseph Priestley).]

[Footnote i-346: _Ibid._, IX, 241.]

[Footnote i-347: _Ibid._, IX, 330.]

[Footnote i-348: _Ibid._, IX, 521; see also IX, 489.]

[Footnote i-349: Although the preponderance of evidence bears out the trustworthiness of this a.s.sertion, one can not idly dismiss his _Some Good Whig Principles_ or disregard his expressed belief that the people ”seldom continue long in the wrong” and if misled they ”come right again, and double their former affections” (cited in W. C. Bruce, _Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed_, II, 100; also see _Writings_, X, 130). There is a clearly evident polarity in Franklin's mind between ultra-democratic faith and a rigorous observation that if ”people” are so const.i.tuted, many men are utter rascals. One almost senses a dichotomy between Franklin the politician and Franklin the man and moralist.]

[Footnote i-350: See his _The Const.i.tution of the United States_ (New York, 1924).]

[Footnote i-351: _The Records of the Federal Convention_, ed. by Max Farrand, I, 488; see _Writings_, IX, 602-3, 595-9.]

[Footnote i-352: _Writings_, IX, 596.]

[Footnote i-353: _The Records of the Federal Convention_, I, 47.]

[Footnote i-354: _Ibid._, I, 165.]

[Footnote i-355: _Writings_, IX, 593.]

[Footnote i-356: _The Records of the Federal Convention_, I, 109.]

[Footnote i-357: _Ibid._, II, 120.]

[Footnote i-358: _Ibid._, II, 204.]

[Footnote i-359: Franklin objected to primogeniture and entail.]

[Footnote i-360: _Ibid._, II, 249.]

[Footnote i-361: Gettell, _op. cit._, 122.]

[Footnote i-362: _Writings_, X, 56-8.]

[Footnote i-363: _Ibid._, IX, 698-703.]

[Footnote i-364: _Ibid._, IX, 608.]

[Footnote i-365: _Ibid._, IX, 638.]