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To one whose mind is not made capacious of the future, and opened to receive it, all the great interests of futurity have less of reality than a dream.
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Mann emphasizes the importance of being open to future possibilities for understanding reality.
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So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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