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Who, at the south, administers this early knowledge,--these ideas, these views, that have such sovereign efficacy in the formation of adult character?
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Mann inquires about who imparts early knowledge to children, emphasizing its critical role in shaping character.
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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.
Whoever intercepts knowledge, therefore, on its passage to a human soul; whoever strikes down the hand that is outstretched to grasp it, is guilty of one of the most heinous of offences.
Can any man give a reason why Norfolk should not have grown like New York, other than the difference in the institutions of the people?
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
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