Takeaways from Benjamin Franklin's life

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Takeaways from Benjamin Franklin's life발음듣기

Voiceover: So in the last few videos we've essentially done an overview of Benjamin Franklin's entire life, and if people want to go more in depth, there's a very good biography, which I encourage people to read. Actually it is fascinating.발음듣기

You know just big picture takeaways, what are the lessons from Ben Franklin?발음듣기

Voiceover: Well first of all he was a renaissance man of the enlightenment, which was cool.발음듣기

He loved science as well as writing and the humanities.발음듣기

He was our best scientist, inventor, diplomat.발음듣기

He was a good business strategist.발음듣기

The first rags to riches person.발음듣기

He's also the person who invents, I think, the essential American character, which is being proudly middle class, being proud to be a shop keeper as he put it, a member of the Leather Apron Club who gets up every morning, puts on the leather apron, and helps fellow citizens.발음듣기

He also knew that the backbone of America was going to be a shopkeeping class who formed civic organizations that brought people together.발음듣기

That's why he forms all these things like the libraries and the hospitals and the academies and that sort of thing, and also he has a notion of tolerance.발음듣기

We were very ethnic people in the colonies up until Philadelphia rises, and Philadelphia is the first city that has everything from Anglicans and Moravians and Jews and Quakers and freed slaves and Indians, and Franklin is a shopkeeper who becomes an apostle of tolerance, saying if we help bring people together.발음듣기

And tolerate everybody's beliefs and religions and backgrounds, that's going to be the secret source of America's diversity.발음듣기

You see it throughout his life.발음듣기

You need wonderful passionate people like John and Sam Adams if you're going to have a great country, and you need revered people like George Washington, but you also need the people who say, "Our strength will come from bringing us together, "from our diversity."발음듣기

Over and over again, when he creates a civic organization the motto will be things like, "The good we can do together is greater than all the goods we can do separately." and, "To pull forth benefits for the common good is divine." That's engraved on the hospital.발음듣기

He does his first editorial cartoon called "Join or Die," which was about the colonies.발음듣기

They all have to get together and join or die.발음듣기

When he goes to Albany in the 1750s to bring the colonies together so that they aren't sort of a Catholic colony of Maryland and a Puritan colony of Massachusetts.발음듣기

We're all one country but religiously diverse.발음듣기

Finally I'll go to the end of his life, because it seems symbolic at that time, after he brings people together at the Constitutional Convention and everything else, I realize that during his lifetime, he donated to the building fund of each and every church built in Philadelphia.발음듣기

At one point they were building a new hall during the Great Awakening, when preachers used to ride around America and preach, and they wanted a hall in Philadelphia that a visiting preacher could preach at, and Benjamin Franklin writes a fundraising document.발음듣기

It says, "Even if the Mufti of Constantinople were "to send somebody to preach Islam to us "and to teach us about the prophet Muhammad, "we should offer a pulpit and listen "for we may learn something."발음듣기

Voiceover: This is in 17? Back then, you know.발음듣기

Voiceover: Yes this is in the 1760s, 1770s. He's very religiously tolerant.발음듣기

On his death bed, I looked at the ledgers of this, he's the largest individual contributor to the Mickve Israel Synagogue, the first synagogue built in Philadelphia.발음듣기

So when he dies, instead of his minister accompanying his casket to the grave, all 35 ministers, preachers, and priests of Philadelphia linked arms with the rabbi of the Jews for this huge funeral procession that marched with him to the grave.발음듣기

It was that type of tolerance, freedom, belief that we could all live together despite our different backgrounds that was what they were fighting for, what they created in 1776 and in 1787 when they create the United States, and it is still the essential thing that the United States is fighting for both around the world but also at home to keep that legacy of Ben Franklin alive.발음듣기

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