ASSOCIATION BATTERY.
From an original sketch in the possession of the Historical Society
of Pennsylvania.

THE career of Franklin teaches very strongly that
general ability, rather than special aptitude, is
the quality most potent in winning success; for it is
impossible not to conclude that he possessed elements
which would have raised him, even had his lot been
other than what it was. Several times in his life he
changed his vocation or interests, but never with ap-
parent loss, and the main impression that his life leaves
on the student is that he was not merely multidexter-
ous, but multiminded.

Franklin came of a working family, and "my elder
brothers," he states, "were all put apprentices to
different trades." He himself, when ten years old, was
taken from school" to assist my father in his business,

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