Benjamin Franklin And T. S. Eliot

The Prophet of Tolerance vs. The Modernist Poet Benjamin Franklin and T.S. Eliot, two intellectual men that were born almost two hundred years apart, but still their virtues share some common theme. They were both well-educated and both were concern about improvement. Self or society improvement. While Franklin’s virtues were mostly about self-improvement, Eliot’s values were about the society; however, both work the other way too. Benjamin Franklin was a wise man that despite the fact that he was lacking in his marriage life, he was still concern about self-improvement and was constantly thinking about a way to change himself to a better version. He had thirteen virtues including: Temperance, Silence, Order, Resolution, Frugality, Industry, Sincerity, Justice, Moderation, Cleanliness, Tranquility, Chastity, Humility. He had these virtues to control himself so he can be a better person and spend his life better. Even though he came up with these rules for himself, he shared them in his autobiography so others can take notes from it too.
By the time that he started to pay more attention to his everyday action, he realized that how hard it is to be caution about all these virtues at the same time; and therefor he came up with a chart to focus on one …show more content…
There’s a lot in the past that people can learn from, and that’s one of the reasons that he used a lot of old literature in their first language in his poems, in this way people who really want to learn, can have the chance to go back and look at those books to get the reference. Even Franklin was aware of the importance of the past. He mentioned a lot of his memories just as a lesson for people in the future. For example, when he mentioned his son who died from a sickness, he just brought up this story to remind the reader the value of vaccination. Both of these men were using their past and their experiences to teach others how to be a better person, how to help and save their