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The free schools of the north lead to the common diffusion of knowledge, and the equalization of society.
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Mann praises northern free schools for promoting knowledge and social equality.
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Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
Is there not one spot where we can stand side by side, as friends, sympathize with each other, and act together in harmony?
Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
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