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I had hoped and intended, either in a public or private capacity, to spend my life in advancing the great cause of the people’s education.
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Mann shares his lifelong ambition to promote education for the public good.
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Is there not one spot where we can stand side by side, as friends, sympathize with each other, and act together in harmony?
Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
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