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But there is another prohibition in the constitution every whit as full and explicit as any of these.
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Mann identifies another explicit prohibition in the Constitution that protects individual rights.
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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.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
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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