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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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.
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…
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
The dearest and most precious of all human rights is the right of private judgment in matters of religion.
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