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A brave heart could withhold a false confession, even upon the rack.
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Mann asserts that a courageous person could resist false accusations even under extreme duress.
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Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
He that chooses to employ a sort of labor that yields only half as much to the hand as another sort would yield, makes a choice that is not only unprofitable, but deeply injurious to his interest.
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