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Base as human nature often proves itself to be, it sometimes manifests a divine resilience by which it springs with recuperative energy from its guilty fall.
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Mann expresses hope in humanity's ability to recover from moral failures.
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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.
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
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