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We have come up now to a point where we look for true intellectual refinement, and a ripe state of personal culture.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “We have come up now to a point where we look for true intellectual refinement, and a ripe state of personal culture.”
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Mann calls for a higher standard of intellectual and personal development.
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