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It results inevitably from the very nature of the power conferred by the law.
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Mann asserts that the implications of the law's power are unavoidable and intrinsic to its nature.
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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.
The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
This ruinous system of large farms cultivated by slaves showed its effects in Italy, eighteen hundred years ago, when the Roman empire was at the height of its grandeur.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
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