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It was the clearest proof of the Great Teacher’s mission, that he had “a taste” for going about doing good.
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Mann points to the example of Jesus as a model of benevolence and a commitment to doing good in the world.
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Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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.
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.
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