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Seguin and others for training idiots, and for educing docility and decency, and a love of order from those almost imperceptible germs of reason and sense, that barely distinguish them from the brutes!
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Mann highlights the transformative impact of individuals who work to nurture and educate those with disabilities, advocating for their dignity.
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So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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