Franklin devised his moral-improvement method when he was in his twenties, and had originally intended to compose a book elaborating on it. In the Autobiography he laments that due to his many other concerns, this task was never accomplished: "I should have called my BOOK the ART of Virtue . . . But it so happened that my Intention of writing & publishing this Comment was never fulfilled . . . the necessary close Attention to private Business in the earlier part of Life, and public Business since, have occasioned my postponing it . . . [and] it has hitherto remain'd unfinish'd."
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