>On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 09:34:59 -0500 "Stephen Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote.
>
>It's been done. An obscure early American (someone named Benjamin
>Franklin) reported:
>
>"We had for our chaplain a zealous Presbyterian minister, Mr. Beatty,
>who complained to me that the men did not generally attend his
>prayers and exhortations. When they enlisted, they were promised...a
>gill of rum a day...I said to Mr. Beatty: "It is, perhaps, below the
>dignity of your profession to act as steward of the rum, but if you
>were to deal it out and only just after prayers, you would have them
>all about you". He liked the tho't, undertook the office and, with
>the help of a few hands to measure out the liquor, executed it to
>satisfaction, and never were prayers more generally and more
>punctually attended..."
>
>There are a few curious things about this story. As Franklin died in
>1790, it appears there was a rather lengthy publication delay before
>it appeared in print in 1969. Second, its publication seems to have
>been arranged by another obscure American named B.F. Skinner. But
>Skinner (shame on him!) never said where this passage appears in
>Franklin's writings.
>
>Reference
>
>Franklin, Benjamin (1969). Operant reinforcement of prayer. Journal
> of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2, 247.
>
>Stephen
Very interesting,Stephen you should try to get on the FACTOR
program hosted by Bill O'Reilly
Just curious !ihas there been a bible belt prof who required
attendance at chapel as an evaluative criterion of a student?
I could swear(Father,I beg thy forgiveness)that occured at Gannon University
in Erie.Pa -my undergrad alma mater.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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