The Society for Useful Knowledge by Jonathan Lyons

Author:Jonathan Lyons
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-10-17T04:00:00+00:00

a This was the same year in which he cooperated with John Bartram to publish their proposal for a learned association, the future American Philosophical Society. In his memoirs, Franklin says he set aside his initial education plan for several years after his first choice to run the school declined to take the post. ABF, 182.

b Princeton received its charter in 1746 as the College of New Jersey. It was formally renamed Princeton in 1896, in honor of its host community, Princeton, New Jersey. Columbia was originally chartered in 1754 as King’s College. It reopened in 1784, after the disruption of the Revolution, as Columbia University.

c Earlier, Franklin had taken on the Philadelphia’s Presbyterian establishment in defense of another outspoken cleric, Samuel Hemphill, whose sermons “inculcated strongly the Practice of Virtue” at the expense of orthodox dogma. Franklin lost that battle and he retreated more or less permanently from church life after that. ABF, 167.

d In fact, the associated trust stated explicitly that the building was restricted to the use of orthodox Christian preachers. See Cheyney, 24, n1.

e Paine was not above invoking classical references in the adoption of his various pen names, such as Atlanticus, Humanus, or Vox Populi, but he otherwise broke with tradition and never relied on epigraphs or literary quotations in support of his arguments. See Alfred Owen Aldridge, “Thomas Paine and the Classics,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 1 (4): 371, 378.

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