Life its ownself.....................

 To know the most important things was, for Franklin, to answer two questions (to borrow an expression from John William Ward).  Who am I? And how did I get to be me? . . . in his mind the most important truths could be understood only by investigating our most immediate and concrete experiences of life—life as real people live it and not as we might see it through the dark glass of intellectual sophistication.

-Jerry Weinberger, Benjamin Franklin Unmasked: On the Unity of His Moral, Religious, and Political Thought