07-30-2015, 10:39 PM
(07-30-2015, 08:57 PM)Devils Advocate Wrote: Of course no one wants to believe the great Ben Franklin was into sacrifice and murder ( 6 of the bodies were children ), so conveniently there is a possible explanation.
Actually there is nothing "convenient" about it.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/11/usa.past
The most plausible explanation is not mass murder, but an anatomy school run by Benjamin Franklin's young friend and protege, William Hewson. He had been a pupil of the most brilliant anatomist of the day, William Hunter, but the two fell out and Hewson started his own anatomy school - at the home of his mother-in-law Margaret Stephenson, just off the Strand, where Benjamin Franklin was also a lodger for 16 years.
It takes a much lager leap of logic to assume that Ben Franklin was a mass murderer than it is to believe that his protege did anatomical studies in his basement. Mass murderers are actually very rare, and there is nothing in Franklin's well documented life to suggest that he was a mass murderer.
