On the record
And who so hungry as those who do not own, and cannot own a morsel of bread?
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Mann highlights the plight of those who are hungry and lack basic sustenance.
Share
More from Horace Mann
Packed and stowed like merchandise between unventilated decks, so close that the tempest without could not ruffle the pestilential air within, the voyage was begun.
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.
He that chooses to employ a sort of labor that yields only half as much to the hand as another sort would yield, makes a choice that is not only unprofitable, but deeply injurious to his interest.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
Other voices in this conversation
