... that he might run away to the sea, Benjamin's father apprenticed Ben to his older brother, James, who was a printer (Donovan 12-17). Benjamin was eager to write for his brothers newspaper, but he knew that he, a young boy, had little or no chance of getting something published. He submitted an article to the paper under the pen name of Silence ... , and together they started America's first circulating library (Eberle 74). Ben wrote to scholars in all the colonies, suggesting that they form a society and exchange letters. This led to the founding of the American Philosophical Society, of...

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