On the record
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.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Mann references a legal and theological principle regarding the importance of context in interpretation.
Share
More from Horace Mann
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
Under such a practice with regard to indictments, coupled with such a practice in regard to bail, an accusation would be as fatal as crime itself, however innocent the accused might be.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
Other voices in this conversation
