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O, star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, To bring us back these tidings of despair?
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Mann poetically addresses the role of science in revealing harsh truths about society.
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So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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.
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
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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