Benjamin Franklin’s Book of Virtues

Benjamin Franklin’s Book of Virtues This pocket-sized hardcover edition contains all thirteen « moral virtues » as Benjamin Franklin wrote them in his memoirs, first posthumously published in 1791. In the heart of this larger work–today known as The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin –he writes of the « bold and arduous Project of arriving at Perfection » that he set for himself as a young man. In this task for perfection, young Benjamin prepared a catalog of thirteen necessary or desirable virtues that he might strive to acquire by means of habit and daily practice. This Applewood Books edition includes a chart that Benjamin Franklin used to track his personal progress towards perfection.