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Horace Mann: “No, sir; agitation is a part of the sublime order of nature.”

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No, sir; agitation is a part of the sublime order of nature.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann asserts that agitation is a natural and necessary force in society.

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