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But, instead of iron arms, and Atlantean shoulders, and the lungs of Boreas, he has given us a mind, a soul, a capacity of acquiring knowledge, and thus of appropriating all these energies of nature to our own use.
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Mann highlights the unique human capacity for knowledge and invention as a means to utilize natural energies.
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So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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