And still further, sir, I affirm, in words as true and literal as any that belong to geometry, that the man who withholds knowledge from a child not only works diabolical miracles for the destruction of good, but for the creation of evil also.
Mann asserts that withholding knowledge from children creates evil as well as destroys good.
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