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In a community so unenlightened as yours, it is a matter of course, that the arts and sciences must languish, and the industry and enterprise of the country be oppressed by a general torpor.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “In a community so unenlightened as yours, it is a matter of course, that the arts and sciences must languish, and the…”
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Tappan argues that a lack of enlightenment in the South stifles progress in arts and sciences.
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