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That doom will be what our present conduct predestines.
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Mann asserts that the consequences of current actions will determine the future of society.
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So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
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