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It is impossible, in the present state of things, or in any state of things which can be foreseen, to have free and universal education in a slave state.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “It is impossible, in the present state of things, or in any state of things which can be foreseen, to have free and…”
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Mann asserts that true universal education cannot exist in a society that practices slavery.
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