Had God designed the human muscles to do the work of the world, then, instead of the ingredients of gunpowder or gun cotton, and the expansive force of heat, he would have given us hands which could take a granite quarry and break its solid acres into suitable and symmetrical blocks, as easily as we now open an orange.
Mann argues that if humans were designed for labor, they would possess extraordinary physical capabilities.
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Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
Packed and stowed like merchandise between unventilated decks, so close that the tempest without could not ruffle the pestilential air within, the voyage was begun.
Whoever intercepts knowledge, therefore, on its passage to a human soul; whoever strikes down the hand that is outstretched to grasp it, is guilty of one of the most heinous of offences.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
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