All such improvements come from minds which have had an early awakening, and been put on scientific trains of thought in their childhood and youth,--a thing utterly impossible for the people at large, without Common Schools.
Mann emphasizes the importance of early education in fostering scientific thought and innovation, advocating for common schools.
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