Charles Sumner: “Every argument for free schools pleads also for free books,--at least…”

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Every argument for free schools pleads also for free books,--at least for freedom from taxation.

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Sumner asserts that the arguments for free public education also support the idea of free books without taxation.

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Charles Sumner: “Every argument for free schools pleads also for free books,--at least for freedom from taxation.”