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Add to your virtue knowledge, says the apostle; but here the command is, Be-cloud and be-little by ignorance whatever virtue you may possess.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Add to your virtue knowledge, says the apostle; but here the command is, Be-cloud and be-little by ignorance whatever…”
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Mann critiques the idea of diminishing virtue through ignorance, contrasting it with the biblical call to add knowledge to virtue.
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