Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] <unk> April 17, 1790) akanga ari nyanzvi yeAmerica uye mumwe weVavambi veUnited States. Franklin akanga ari munyori akatanhamara, muprinta, nyanzvi yezvematongerwe enyika, wezvematongerwe enyika, Freemason, mukuru wepositi, musayendisiti, mugadziri, mutambi, mutsigiri wehurumende, uye mumiriri. Semusayendisiti, aiva munhu anokosha muAmerican Enlightenment uye munhoroondo yefizikisi nokuda kwezvaakawana uye pfungwa dzake pamusoro pemagetsi. Somugadziri, anozivikanwa nokuda kwechinodzivirira mheni, magirazi anotarisa zvinhu zvakasiyana-siyana, uye chitofu chaFranklin, pakati pezvimwe zvinhu zvaakagadzira. Akavamba masangano akawanda ehurumende, kusanganisira Library Company, dhipatimendi rokutanga remoto rePhiladelphia neYunivhesiti yePennsylvania. Franklin akawana zita rokuti "The First American" nokuda kwekutanga kwake uye kusagadzikana kwekutsvaga kubatana kwekoloni, pakutanga semunyori uye mutauriri muLondon kune dzimwe nyika dzakawanda. Somumiriri wokutanga weUnited States muFrance, akaratidzira rudzi rweAmerica rwakanga ruchibuda. Franklin akanga ari musimboti mukutsanangura tsika dzeAmerica semuchato wetsika dzinoshanda dzokuchengetedza, kushanda nesimba, dzidzo, mudzimu womunharaunda, masangano anozvitonga, uye kushorwa kwehutongi hwose hwezvematongerwe enyika uye hwechitendero, pamwe chete netsika dzesayenzi uye dzokushivirira dzeEnlightenment. Mumashoko omunyori wenhau dzakaitika Henry Steele Commager, "MuFranklin makanga muchigona kubatanidzwa kunaka kwechiPuritanism pasina utera hwayo, chiedza cheEnlightenment pasina kupisa kwayo". Kuna Walter Isaacson, izvi zvinoita Franklin "muAmerican akabudirira zvikuru wezera rake uye ane simba zvikuru mukugadzira rudzi rwemagariro eAmerica aizova. "Franklin akava mupepeti wepepanhau akabudirira uye anodhinda muPhiladelphia, guta rinotungamira mumakoroni, achibudisa Pennsylvania Gazette pazera remakore 23. Akava mupfumi achibudisa bhuku iri nebhuku rinonzi Poor Richard's Almanack, raakanyora achishandisa zita remadunhurirwa rokuti "Richard Saunders". Pashure pa1767, akabatanidzwa nePennsylvania Chronicle, pepanhau raizivikanwa nokuda kwaro...  Mubvunzo: Zita romunyori wenhau dzakaitika nderipi?
Henry Steele Commager