Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) fue, "avant la lettre", el hombre representativo americano que podr�a haber figurado en la ilustre galer�a de retratos literarios de Emerson. Franklin, habitante de las colonias inglesas, presenci�, y casi sell� con un c�lebre discurso, el nacimiento de los Estados Unidos como primera democracia moderna, solicitando a los dem�s delegados de la Convenci�n Federal reunidos en Filadelfia la recomendaci�n un�nime de la Constituci�n americana. La escritura de Franklin, sin embargo, tiene su ra�z en la �tica puritana, cuya poderosa y brillante imaginaci�n hab�a dado a luz una de sus lecturas favoritas, "El progreso del peregrino" de John Bunyan. Descendiente espiritual de aquellos "Pilgrim Fathers", el infatigable y polifac�tico Franklin transmiti� a su �poca en el texto de su "Autobiograf�a" la necesidad de seguir cultivando una �tica que no descuidara las fuentes cl�sica y judeocristiana de nuestra cultura ("Imitate Jesus and Socrates"), a la vista de las oportunidades que brindaba la vida en el Nuevo Mundo. La "Autobiograf�a" de Franklin, plagada de las an�cdotas y ense�anzas de su larga vida, inacabada por definici�n, como el mundo en que se hab�a gestado, iniciada como una carta a su hijo y continuada como un testimonio ante sus conciudadanos, conserva todo el valor promisorio de los textos fundamentales de la tradici�n norteamericana.

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