All great moral questions, though touching them but lightly at first, will come closer and closer home, as long as they live;--growing into greater importance for their posthumous memory than for their living fame, and affecting the fortunes of their posterity even more than their own.
Mann reflects on how moral questions become increasingly significant over time, impacting future generations more than the current one.
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What rights are more sacred or more dear to us than the conjugal and the parental?
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.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
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