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I am interested in nothing else so much as in the attributes of my Creator, and in the relations which he has established between me and himself, for time and for eternity.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Mann shares his deep interest in understanding the nature of God and humanity's relationship with the divine.

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