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I would give to every human being the best opportunity I could to develop and cultivate the faculties which God has bestowed upon him, and which, therefore, he holds under a divine charter.
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Mann advocates for providing every individual the opportunity to develop their God-given faculties.
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No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
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