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The love of knowledge will die out, when it ceases to be stimulated by the means of knowledge.
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Mann states that the pursuit of knowledge is essential for its survival and growth.
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So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
This ruinous system of large farms cultivated by slaves showed its effects in Italy, eighteen hundred years ago, when the Roman empire was at the height of its grandeur.
Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
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