Angelina Emily Grimké: “As a nation, we have too long educated the mind, and left the heart a…”

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As a nation, we have too long educated the mind, and left the heart a moral waste.

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Angelina Emily Grimké

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Grimké critiques the nation's focus on intellectual education at the expense of moral development.

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