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Knowledge and industry are recuperative energies that can never long be balked in their quest of prosperity.
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Mann highlights the importance of knowledge and industry as essential for prosperity.
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So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
Whoever intercepts knowledge, therefore, on its passage to a human soul; whoever strikes down the hand that is outstretched to grasp it, is guilty of one of the most heinous of offences.
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