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Benjamin Franklin (Franklin, Benjamin - Scientist): United States
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To make matters worse, when Franklin wrote a letter to go to the United States, he would entrust it to a courier who was vouched for by the French government. This courier on the way to the docks made a side trip to the British embassy, where, using some kind of chemical action, the seals were lifted, the letter read or transcribed, and then the seals replaced so that no one would notice. In other words, everything that Franklin wrote, said, or did was known to the British government.
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A slightly fuller account* states: "Benjamin Franklin, Deputy Postmaster-General for North America, went up to New York Harbour in the Spring of 1757 to make the voyage to Britain on a mail packet. There were three there when he arrived, those that should have left for Falmouth after three weeks having been held back by the military commander, the Earl of Loudoun.
Statement in Bacon's Philosophical Works that the Greeks condemned to death the first physicists who presumed to explain the natural causes of thunder; applies to Franklin for aid in verifying this. Question of a belief in God; attitude of Voltaire—of Socrates.
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