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Surely, the honorable senator is too good a lawyer to be ignorant of the maxim, “qui hæret in litera” &c.; and too good a theologian not to have read that “the letter killeth” if divorced from the spirit.
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Mann references a legal and theological principle regarding the importance of context in interpretation.
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