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Surely, never was there a more sinister, unsound, unchristian argument uttered by infidel or pagan.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Surely, never was there a more sinister, unsound, unchristian argument uttered by infidel or pagan.”
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Mann condemns a particular argument as being morally and ethically unsound.
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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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