Ethics

Another Fake Quote Tracked Down

By Ed Brayton

SBH has tracked down yet another fake quote from a founding father, this time from Ben Franklin. I'm sure you've heard this one a time or two:

He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

And it turns out, unsurprisingly, that the quote was a paraphrase that has transformed magically into a quote over two centuries of repeating without proper attribution.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on July 26, 2009 (boomark / email).