Any enlargement of business, any increase of profits, any augmentation of wealth, gained by a community through a dereliction from principle, is as insecure and as ignominious as the gains of an individual through fraud, embezzlement, or peculation.
Mann warns that any economic gain achieved at the expense of principles is ultimately insecure and dishonorable.
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No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
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