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Did the Pilgrim fathers resist conformity to ecclesiastical oppression because they were a majority of the people?
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Mann questions the motivations behind the Pilgrim fathers' resistance to oppression, highlighting the importance of standing against conformity.
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But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
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