Note 261 — LECTURE XVI. GOD THE PRINCIPLE OF THE IDEA OF THE GOOD.
O. W. (Orlando Williams) Wight translation
In the Correspondence, the letter to Dr. Stiles, March 9, 1790, written by Franklin a few months before his death: "I am convinced that the moral and religious system which Jesus Christ has transmitted to us is the best that the world has seen or can see."—We here re-translate, not having the works of Franklin immediately at hand.