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Eighteen hundred years ago, it was said that no man can serve two masters; but the cupidity of modern times proposes the solution of a problem which Christ declared to be impossible.
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Mann references a biblical principle to argue against the possibility of serving conflicting interests, particularly in the context of slavery.
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