I have not the vanity, my lord, to think of intimidating, by thus predicting the effects of this war; for I know it will in England have the fate of all my former predictions; not to be believed till the event shall verify it.
Franklin reflects on the skepticism surrounding his predictions about the war's impact in England.
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II. p. 118.--The truth is, that the Indians considered their lands as mere hunting-manors, and not as farms.
But such, it seems, is the unhappiness of human nature, that our passions, when violent, often are too hard for the united force of reason, duty, and religion.
Public spirit really exists there, and has great effects.
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