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In company with the chemist Brownrigg of Cumberland 'he put forth into the midst of Derwentwater, when its waves were beaten to fury and to foam by a tempestuous mountain wind, and successfully tried the experiment of calming the lake by pouring oil upon the water.
Aristotle and Plutarch and Pliny had said that it could be done. Franklin was the first among experimental philosophers to demonstrate that a few drops of oil would tranquillize turbulent waters. So interested was he in his experimen...t that he was wont to carry a few drops of oil in the upper hollow joint of his bamboo cane to watch the effect upon wind-beaten pools.
Is it too fanciful to take this scientific ex- periment as an illustration of Franklin's career and character? He seems to me to have gone through life pouring oil on troubled waters. He was an emollient softening the asperities and crudities of contention. His writings were al- ways conciliatory, irenic. He refrained from disputation, and tried by every means in his power to splinter the broken joint between the colonies and Old England.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In company with the chemist Brownrigg of Cumberland 'he put forth into the midst of Derwentwater, when its waves were beaten to fury and to foam by a tempestuous mountain wind, and successfully tried the experiment of calming the lake by pouring oil upon the water.
Aristotle and Plutarch and Pliny had said that it could be done. Franklin was the first among experimental philosophers to demonstrate that a few drops of oil would tranquillize turbulent waters. So interested was he in his experimen...t that he was wont to carry a few drops of oil in the upper hollow joint of his bamboo cane to watch the effect upon wind-beaten pools.
Is it too fanciful to take this scientific ex- periment as an illustration of Franklin's career and character? He seems to me to have gone through life pouring oil on troubled waters. He was an emollient softening the asperities and crudities of contention. His writings were al- ways conciliatory, irenic. He refrained from disputation, and tried by every means in his power to splinter the broken joint between the colonies and Old England.
What to read after Benjamin Franklin?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Smyth Albert Henry to read onlineMoreLess
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