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If any light penetrates to his soul, it is because human art cannot weave a cloud dense and dark enough to be wholly impervious to it.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “If any light penetrates to his soul, it is because human art cannot weave a cloud dense and dark enough to be wholly…”
Editor's note · Context
Mann suggests that even in the darkest circumstances, some light can still reach the human soul, symbolizing hope.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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