. The new eclectic history of the United States . to the world the mostacute and original mind which America hadproduced. It was written at the little villageof Stockbridge, Mass., where he was actingas missionary to the Indians. His childhoodwas remarkable. Before he was thirteenyears old he had read many works in Latin,Greek, and Hebrew, besides the most learnedof English books; while his observations inNatural History show that his studies had not been confined toprinted pages. He was graduated at seventeen from Yale Col-lege, preached in New York before he was twenty, was twenty-four years
. The new eclectic history of the United States . to the world the mostacute and original mind which America hadproduced. It was written at the little villageof Stockbridge, Mass., where he was actingas missionary to the Indians. His childhoodwas remarkable. Before he was thirteenyears old he had read many works in Latin,Greek, and Hebrew, besides the most learnedof English books; while his observations inNatural History show that his studies had not been confined toprinted pages. He was graduated at seventeen from Yale Col-lege, preached in New York before he was twenty, was twenty-four years pastor at Northampton, Mass., and became presidentof Princeton College two months before his death. His won-derful power as a preacher was thought to be due to his im-mense preparation, long forethought, careful writing of everyword, touching earnestness, and holy life. 203. Pranklin.—But the mind which most perfectly repre-sented and most strongly influenced the American characterwas that of Benjamin Franklin,* the printer-boy of Boston, the. 120 IIISTOKV OF Till. LXITKIi STATKS. self-taught sage of Philadelphia, the representative of the col-onies at London, the embassador of the United States at Paris,whose plain good sense, genial humor, and honest self-respectmade him the favorite of all ranks and classes. He had accus-tomed himself from boyhood to write on public affairs, and hispamphlets on the interests of England and the rights of the colonies were read withgreat attention on bothsides of the ocean. Ex-amined by Parliament in1765 concerning the prob-able effect of the StampAct in America (§220),he replied with so muchfirmness, dignity, and in-telligence that even thebitterest enemies of thecolonies were forced toheed his arguments. 204. His most popularwork was Poor Rich- Benjamin Franklin. i> »1 >> ^ ard s Almanac, whosenumbers were afterwards shortened and reprinted in one volumecalled The Way to Wealth. It contains a fund of homelywisdom, and Franklin
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