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He cuts deeper than the muscles; he destroys the spirit that moves the muscles.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “He cuts deeper than the muscles; he destroys the spirit that moves the muscles.”
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Mann asserts that the exploitation of labor leads to a loss of energy and productivity.
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Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
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