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No matter whether the tide ebbs or flows, they drift with the current.
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Mann illustrates the passive nature of individuals who simply go along with societal trends without critical thought.
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But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
What rights are more sacred or more dear to us than the conjugal and the parental?
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