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Hence it is natural, yes, it is inevitable,--is it not?--that we should approach this subject with widely different views, and, as it were, from opposite points of the moral compass.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Mann asserts that differing backgrounds lead to inevitable contrasting views on moral issues.

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