Benjamin Franklin the rennaissance man in America, proved the old saving, " you can be anything you want to be."  Benjamin Franklin set the level for generations to come by laying down the grounds for our great country and by leading a life for the betterment of mankind.  In The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Franklin provides the reader with the positive leadership missing in today's society.  Benjamin Franklin set the standards by being a scientist, a patriot, and by leading a life that would help his fellow man.

Benjamin Franklin moved to Philidelphia as printer in hopes of a new job.  Franklin was dedicated to printing and the art of forming words.  Mastering ones own language can lead to the improvement in one's class or in Benjamin Franklin's case social circle.  Though when in those circles Franklin was not set on gossiping, but by trying to make real conversation not as Franklin describes in his autobiography as trifling, joking, prattling, and punning.(Franklin 66)  Franklin's study of science, the study of electrical currents by watching cloud patterns and lightening storms.  Not only would he aid in the founding of the basic steps of today's most valued commodity, electicity. Has D. H. Lawrence points out, Benjamin was a social man and praises him saying, "I admire him. I admire his sturdy courage first of all, then his sagacity, then his glimpse into the thunders of electricity, then his common-sense humour.  All the qualities of a great man, and never more a than a great citizen." (D. H. Lawrence 4) Bifocals could now help those with inadequate eyes, with the vision to read and even participate in other aspects of life up until then restricted.

 Benjamin Franklin was a patriot to this country even before it was established.  Benjamin Franklin saw the strength the colonies needed to pull from each other during the French and Indian War, which he would again stress during the Pre-Revolutionary War era.  The statement, United We Stand Divided We Fall, would reverbarate through the colonies strengthing the call for arms. Benjamin Franklin sent to France as an embassador in order to recieve help, won the cause of American Independence from the French Monarchy.  Benjamin Franklin was also delegates to the Continential Congresses. In which a document called the Albany Constitiution was written up by Franklin.  Though it was rejected Franklin let his ideas known.  In the turbulent Revolutionary years Ben Franklin and Alexander Hamilton would help start America off economically.
Ben Franklin was considered the father of economics in the United States.

  Franklin in his entire book was giving examples of how he was bettering his fellow man.  With a small start Franklin helped established the Philidelphia Library and even helped start up the hospital of Philidelphia.  In his autobiography, Franklin sets out 13 charateristics that he believed if worked on, in his case one each week, would help better a mans internal soul. (D. H. Lawrence)  The thirteen characteristics: Temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquiltiy, chastity, and humility.  Franklin hoped by working on each of this he would be living a moral christian life that would be admired by all and for all to follow.

 Franklin throughly and truely believed in helping his fellow man.  All of his life he was striving for that goal whether it be in science, politics, or even everyday life.  In this we should consider Franklin and his life and ask ourselves what we have learned from him.