We know, too, that in addition to the powerful influences of education and training, the general cast and structure of men’s minds predispose them to take one side or the other of great political and religious questions.
Mann emphasizes the influence of education and inherent biases on people's political and religious beliefs.
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Can any man give a reason why Norfolk should not have grown like New York, other than the difference in the institutions of the people?
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
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