We have been so often astonished and amazed, by shock after shock, and convulsion after convulsion, that I fear we are beginning to lose our moral sensibility to political catastrophes, however grand or fatal they may be.
Mann reflects on the desensitization of society to political upheaval due to frequent crises.
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Whoever intercepts knowledge, therefore, on its passage to a human soul; whoever strikes down the hand that is outstretched to grasp it, is guilty of one of the most heinous of offences.
Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
Her lowland neighbors of Maryland and the Carolinas were not far behind at the seeding; nor are they far behind at the ingathering of desolation.
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