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Horace Mann: “O, star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, To bring us back these tidings of despair?”

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O, star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, To bring us back these tidings of despair?
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann poetically addresses the role of science in revealing harsh truths about society.

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