But how clearly is it seen to be a violation of its own laws, for slavery to produce a genuine scholar, or a man who, in any department of excellence, unless it be in politics, is not a full century behind his time?
Mann asserts that slavery cannot produce genuine scholars or individuals of excellence.
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Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
And yet, infinitely flagrant as the anomaly is, the slave is amenable to the laws of the land for all offences which he may commit against others, though he is powerless to protect himself by the same law from offences which others may…
Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
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