Quote by Benjamin Franklin
The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings with each other is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government, and examined the different forms of those republics which, having been formed with seeds of their own dissolution, now no longer exist.
Summary
This quote highlights the author's disappointment with the lack of significant progress achieved in weeks of close collaboration and reasoning. The author sees this as evidence of the inherent flaws in human understanding. It suggests a collective acknowledgement of their own lack of political wisdom by looking to ancient history for guidance on governance and analyzing republics that no longer exist due to inherent weaknesses.
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