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Increase the constituency, if I may so speak, of developed intellect, and you increase in an equal ratio the chances of inventive, creative genius.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann advocates for expanding the educated population to enhance creativity and innovation in society.

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