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It should be a verdict, therefore, which you can look upon, at the close of life, with conscientious satisfaction.
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Mann stresses the importance of a verdict that one can reflect upon with pride and integrity at the end of life.
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But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
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