Makes him stop. And to cut the story a little bit, Benjamin Franklin actually runs away. He breaks his apprenticeship he had signed to be an apprentice with his brother for seven years and runs away to philadelphia. Now, this is an important thing, because boston was very theocratic, one with very little separation from the puritan churches and the government. But philadelphia was a place where there was a great diversity of people. There were moravians and anglicans and episcopals and screws and slaves an freed slaves, and they all worked together in a place called Market Street. They all came to shop. And it was the first place of brotherly love, where you saw a diversity of people trying, people who are all immigrants, including the anglicans and episcopalia episcopalians, but all of them had come for a particular type of freedom, and they had to Work Together in what was the first ethnically diverse society. An ethnic and religious and background diversity truly leads to creativity
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Important. This. The American Revolutionary project than the birth of the republic energies were devoted to inventions to improve the quality of Colonial Life and overcome the numerous obstacles facing the community and expanded scientific horizon. Franklin call these people and what is notable is there social origin. Drawn from the urban craftsman rather than the ranks of gentleman who tell to help dissuade the colonial towns and cities and collectively they ever known as mechanics that we tend to associate with a car mechanic but they came together not only to lew pursues science in general also to agree of its social and economic and political interest. Now contemporaries particularly british defying the mechanics of a practitioner of those were the hand and body are more concerned than the mind and in england the term carried with it residual class prejudice this was very much not the case here in the new world. There is a shortage of Skilled Labor including allamerica so they had