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Yet it is this very religious despotism over millions of men which it is now proposed, not to destroy, but to create.
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Mann warns against the creation of new forms of religious oppression rather than abolishing existing ones.
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So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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.
No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
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