When one takes a look at the world in which he currently lives, he sees it as being normal since it is so slow in changing. When an historian looks at the present, he sees the effects of many events and many profound people. Benjamin Franklin is one of these people. His participation in so many different fields changed the world immensely. He was a noted politician as well as respected scholar. He was an …
showed first 75 words of 1587 total

showed last 75 words of 1587 total
…He replied, "What good is a newborn baby?" He could see potential in all new things. Benjamin Franklin was a mild-mannered widely loved "jack-of-all-trades". His name and reputation will live on forever not only in history books but also in the hundreds of inventions, discoveries, improvements, and methods he had devised during his eighty-four year stay in the fields of politics, science, and humanity. What would the world be today had Benjamin Franklin not lived?