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I deprecate error of all sorts; but hold it to be more venial to err in judgment than in heart.
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Mann expresses his belief that errors in judgment are less severe than errors in moral conviction.
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Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
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.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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