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Horace Mann: “The great points on which men and parties so vehemently differ, can only be permanently settled at the tribunal of…”

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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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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann believes that fundamental disagreements can only be resolved through reason and conscience.

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