The practicality of being a printer amidst the multiplicity of opinion. Retells the tale of the father, son, donkey, and muddy road. So unlike the Benjamin Franklin who has shown himself to us thus far. Simplicity and honesty vs. cunning and artifice and dissimulation, which are now the fashion. The maskers of all kinds are ultimately unmasked, 183.
Nature of man is to backbite.
As a printer, it is his duty on occasion to censure but not b-b. The Junto looks like a junior Academy of Philosophy. Good conversation, getting rich, vice and virtue, medicine, service to others, encouragement of others. Community within and beyond the Junto. Love mankind and respect the Junto members.