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Horace Mann: “Natural biases operate like a law of gravitation to sway different minds in different directions.”

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Natural biases operate like a law of gravitation to sway different minds in different directions.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann compares natural biases in human thinking to the law of gravitation, illustrating how they influence opinions.

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