AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 1
INTRODUCTION 2
PART ONE 12
1．Ancestry and Early Youth in Boston 12
2．Beginning Life as a Printer 25
3．Arrival in Philadelphia 37
4．First Visit to Boston 46
5．Early Friends in Philadelphia 55
6．First Visit to London 60
7．Beginning Business in Philadelphia 75
8．Business Success and First Public Service 93
PART TWO 101
9．Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection 107
PART THREE 121
10．Poor Richard's Almanac and Other Activities 125
11．Interest in Public Affairs 135
12．Defense of the Province 144
13．Public Services and Duties(1749～1753) 154
14．Albany Plan of Union 170
15．Quarrels with the Proprietary Governors 173
16．Braddock's Expedition 177
17．Franklin's Defense of the Frontier 191
18．Scientific Experiments 201
19．Agent of Pennsylvania in London 206
PART FOUR 219
SELECTED WRITINGS 225
NEWSPAPER WRITINGS:1722～1734 226
Silence Dogood,No.7(1722) 226
Preface to the Pennsylvania Gazette(1729) 231
A Witch Trial at Mount Holly 233
POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC:1733～1758 236
Preface to Poor Richard(1733) 237
Preface to Poor Richard(1739) 238
The Way to Wealth 241
PROJECTS:1728～1749 252
Rules for a Club Established for Mutual Improvement(1728) 252
A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America(1743) 255
OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS:1744～1785 259
An Account of the New Invented Pennsylvanian Fireplaces 259
Of Lightning(The Lightning Road)(1767) 268
ESSAYS:1747～1768 274
The Speech of Polly Baker(1747) 274
Exporting of Felons to the Colonies(1751) 277
Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind,and the Peopling of Countries(1751) 280
On the Price of Corn,and Management of the Poor(1766) 289
LETTERS:1771～1775 294
What Sort of Husbands Would Be Fittest(1771) 294
To Jonathan Shipley(1775) 297
REVOLUTIONARY WRITINGS:1766～1787 303
Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One;Presented privately to a late Minister,when he entered upon his Administration(1773) 303
To the Count de Vergennes,a Diplomatic Apology(1782) 313
Speech in the Convention,at the Constitution of Its Deliberrations(1787) 315
WISE,PRACTICAL,AND HUMOROUS WRITINGS OF THE AGED SAGE:1722～1790 318
To Joseph Priestley,On Moral Algebra,or Decision-making(1772) 318
The Ephemera(1778) 320
The Whistle(1779) 322
On Cotton Mather(1784) 325
A Letter to Samuel Mather(1784) 328
To Ezra Stiles a Religious Credo(1790) 329
POEMS AND EPITAPH 332
I Sing My Plain Country Joan 332
Franklin's Epitaph 335
Appendix 336