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To those, who with the writer, believe that ignorance is the parent of vice, and that the civilized is preferable to the savage state, our situation, in the above particulars, demands the gratitude of every heart.
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Daggett argues that ignorance leads to vice, and thus, the educational advantages of Connecticut should be appreciated.
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