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In a Philadelphia ale house in 1727, Benjamin Franklin and most of his "ingenious acquaintance" met to query one another on Morals, Politics or Natural Philosophy. Franklin, at that time 21, gave to his informal club the provocative name of Junto. Later, with the wisdom of age, it became the American Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge.
Last week its direct descendant, the American Philosophical Society, bigger and perhaps wiser, celebrated its 200th anniversary at Philadelphia with the reading of learned...
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