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And by what rule of Christian morality, or even of enlightened heathen morality, can we deal differently with the kindred of others from what we would with our own?
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Mann emphasizes the moral obligation to treat all individuals with the same care and concern we would afford our own family.

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