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| | Filangieri & Franklin |
 | | The friendship that grew between the Neapolitan philosopher and Benjamin Franklin, and the wish of the first to follow the statesman and secular moralist by emigrating to the New World, were signs of a profound belief in reason. |
 | | Benjamin Franlin and Gaetano Filangieri: two scientist, two statesmen, two masters of thought, two fathers of modernity, two men who marked an era, two witnesses of life and civilization. |
 | | It is a conference in which we, the descendents, thinking upon the documents of which we are the custodians, can explore through science and knowledge and from a new vantage point the roots of what we were and what we shall be. |
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