Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Priestly
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Introduction
In 1780, Benjamin Franklin writes to Joseph Priestly ... The rapid progress "true" science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born too soon. It is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter ...
.. all disease may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting even that of old age, and our lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian standard.
.. see Age of the patriarchs at the time of their death