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The great points on which men and parties so vehemently differ, can only be permanently settled at the tribunal of reason and conscience.
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Mann believes that fundamental disagreements can only be resolved through reason and conscience.
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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.
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.
Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
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