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Read and ponder what was so nobly said by one of the heathen of the old world, and be ashamed, yea, weep for your country and your kind, if the Christianity of America has fallen below the paganism of Rome.
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Mann critiques the moral state of American Christianity by comparing it unfavorably to ancient paganism.
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