Benjamin Franklin

One of the most creative and influential writers who was also a representative of the Age of Reason would undoubtedly be Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin represented the Age of Reason in so many different ways. Since the Age of Reason was a time of experimenters and thinkers, Franklin was one of the greats. Franklin was such a great experimenter that he was constantly looking for new ways to make things work better and more efficiently. The Age of Reason was the period in time where rationalism, the idea that a human can arrive at truth by reason, reigned supreme and Franklin was indeed ...