To climb from the place of a printer's boy to the highest rank in science, politics, and diplomacy would be far easier to-day than in the eighteenth century, given a genius like Franklin to do it.
Lodge highlights the potential for individuals to rise to prominence through talent and hard work, using Benjamin Franklin as an example.
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