Be Generous to HumanityThat, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.
Franklin mentions that this was always a principle of his, and was the reason that he turned down a patent on the Franklin Stove. Good advice? Is this overly altruistic? Surely Ayn Rand would disagree with this philosophy. Franklin though, would probably answer that he was repaid ten-fold in other ways than if he had tried to profit from sales of the stove.
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