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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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Mann calls for a higher standard of intellectual and personal development.
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Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
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.
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