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Natural biases operate like a law of gravitation to sway different minds in different directions.
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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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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.
Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
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