...Socrates, wherein there are many instances of the same method. I was charmed with it, adopted it, dropt my abrupt contradiction and positive argumentation, and put on the humble inquirer and doubter." It was very shrewd of the boy to see so quickly the strategic advantage of the humbler method. It was...

...Things of Socrates, wherein there are many examples of the same method. I was charmed with it, adopted it, dropped my abrupt contradiction and positive argumentation, and put on the humble inquirer; ... I found this method the safest for myself and very embarrassing to those against whom I used it;...

...Things of Socrates, wherein there are many instances of the same method. I was charmed with it, adopted it, dropped my abrupt contradiction and positive argumentation, and put on the humble inquirer and doubter. — Benjamin Franklin, TTie Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Whatever, in fact, is modern in our...

...Socrates, wherein there are many instances of the same method. I was charmed with it, adopted it, dropt my abrupt contradiction and positive argumentation, and put on the humble inquirer and doubter. And being then, from reading Shaftesbury and Collins, become a real doubter in many points of our religious...

...trouble for contentiousness, Franklin later discovered what he called a Socratic verbal style: "I ... dropped my abrupt contradiction and positive argumentation, and put on the humble enquirer." He did so, quite characteristically, not because of some abstract commitment to the virtues...

...Socrates, wherein there are many instances of the same method. I was charm'd with it, adopted it, dropt my abrupt contradiction and positive argumentation, and put on the humble inquirer and doubter. And being then, from reading Shaftesbury and Collins, become a real doubter in many points of our religious...

...Things of Socrates, wherein there are many Instances of the same Method. I was charm'd with it, adopted it, dropped my abrupt Contradiction and positive Argumentation, and put on the humble Enquirer and Doubter. And being then, from reading Shaftesbury and Collins, become a real Doubter in...

...Socrates, wherein there are many instances of the same method. I was charm'd with it, adopted it, dropt my abrupt contradiction and positive argumentation, and put on the humble inquirer and doubter. And being then, from reading Shaftesbury and Collins, become a real doubter in many points of our religious...

...and from Xenophon he learned the greatest lesson of his life. " From that time," says he, "I adopted it, dropped my abrupt contradiction and positive argumentation,...the humble inquirer and doubter." Again and again from his Autobiography, and from other 8 t!'e sources> ^6 learn how, through his long life, he avoided...