... although he achieved many accomplishments within his life, he never lived up to the priority goal that he had set for himself. The perfection of morality. This wasn't just one failure for Franklin, because his outline of this perfection was built with many little qualities and characteristics he wished to uphold ... constantly contradicting himself through his own actions. He believes that Franklin limits man, while at the same time expects him to obtain the highest of goals and morality. (DHL 24) "He tries to take away my wholeness, my freedom. How can any man be free without an illimit...

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... would focus on only one deficit at a time, but would track all of them by placing a mark in the corresponding column when he recalled an infraction. His plan was to master his faults one at a time, gradually cycling through each deficit over a period of thirteen weeks, and repeating the cycle until he was free from all of his faults (Davis, 2006 ... African American boys and girls (Grimm, 2002, p. 101-102). Franklin was not a deeply religious man. He proclaimed himself to be a deist, however, he did believe that God was influential in morality. Franklin's philanthropic philosophy was ba...

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