Through colonial doorways . THB American PhildsophicalSociety. N none of his schemes and foun-dations did Dr. Franklin moresignally display the breadthand catholicity of his mind thanhis plan for the establishment,in the New World, of an association forthe general diffusion of useful knowledge,to which the Old World should be tribu-tary, and from which it should in time berecipient. With this end in view, he, in1743, issued a proposal for the organiza-tion and government of an American Phil-osophical Society, whose object was tobring into correspondence with a centralassociation in Philadelphi
Through colonial doorways . THB American PhildsophicalSociety. N none of his schemes and foun-dations did Dr. Franklin moresignally display the breadthand catholicity of his mind thanhis plan for the establishment,in the New World, of an association forthe general diffusion of useful knowledge,to which the Old World should be tribu-tary, and from which it should in time berecipient. With this end in view, he, in1743, issued a proposal for the organiza-tion and government of an American Phil-osophical Society, whose object was tobring into correspondence with a centralassociation in Philadelphia all scientists,E ^ 9 97 98 THROUGH COLONIAL DOORWAYS. philosophers, and inventors, on this con-tinent and in Europe. Bold as was thisscheme in its breadth and reach, in itssmaller details it was marked by thepractical characteristics of the Hamiltons and Franklins might dream dreams and see visions to theend of the chapter; but they would haveframed no governments, or have foundedno learned institutions destined to outlastthe centuries, had n
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