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It furnishes endless temptations and facilities for committing wrong; it imposes no restraints; it warns by no threats of retribution.
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Mann critiques the moral implications of slavery, emphasizing its corrupting influence.
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The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
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