And I trust the time is not now, and never will be, when the children of the Puritans will obey any commandment of human origin if it conflicts with a divine command, though they have to lie down in lions’ dens or walk through furnace fires, as the penalty of disobedience.
Mann expresses hope that the descendants of Puritans will prioritize divine commands over human laws, even at great personal cost.
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Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
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