I say it is impossible, that so sensible a people, under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoaky, unwholesome and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known, that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.
Franklin argues that it is illogical for a sensible people to continue using expensive candles when free sunlight is available.
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