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Such a destroyer of knowledge dims the highest moral splendor of the universe.
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Mann argues that destroying knowledge undermines the moral fabric of the universe.
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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.
Is there not one spot where we can stand side by side, as friends, sympathize with each other, and act together in harmony?
Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
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