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Horace Mann: “Hence the two resulting and all-comprehending duties,--love to God and love to Man.”

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Hence the two resulting and all-comprehending duties,--love to God and love to Man.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann identifies love for God and love for humanity as the primary duties.

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