Allow me to quote a younger authority than I, namely Dick Greenhaus, in this profound controversy:
"Benjamin Franklin, while a minister to France, first suggested the idea in a humorous essay in 1784 titled "Turkey vs. Eagle, McCauley is my Beagle." But it wasn't for more than a century later that an Englishman, William Willett, suggested it again in 1907."
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