What similarities and essential differences can we see between Franklins Project of arriving at moral Perfection and the Puritan practice of rigorous introspection and mediation? Franklin writes that daily Examination would be necessary, and he uses a little Book, duly lines, on which Line and in its proper Column I might mark by a little black Spot every Fault I found upon Examination to have been committed respecting that Virtue upon that Day. What is familiar about this practice-and what makes it radically new?

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What similarities and essential differences can we see between Franklins Project of arriving at moral Perfection and the Puritan practice of rigorous introspection and mediation? Franklin writes that daily Examination would be necessary, and he uses a little Book, duly lines, on which Line and in its proper Column I might mark by a little black Spot every Fault I found upon Examination to have been committed respecting that Virtue upon that Day. What is familiar about this practice-and what makes it radically new?
How does The Autobiography reveal Franklin to be an eighteenth century man? In what ways does he adapt what he calls the Age of Experiments to political and personal life?
Franklins prose both confirms and enlarges on his self-portrait as a rational man. Discuss Franklins use of satire, especially in Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One, as an eighteenth-century rhetorical device.
If satire is Franklins modus operandi in Rules, how do we characterize his approach in The Speech of Miss Polly Baker? Here Franklin adopts the voice of a poor unhappy woman on trial in New England, where she is prosecuted for the fifth Time for having a Bastard Child. Consider whether Polly Baker is a work of satire, an earnest plea for womens rights, or both.