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Horace Mann: “Though all Young Men are substantially alike in their desire of well being, yet, in regard to the guiding principles by…”

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Though all Young Men are substantially alike in their desire of well being, yet, in regard to the guiding principles by which the objects of hope are pursued, in order to obtain happiness, three marked distinctions, or classes, exist among them.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann identifies three distinct classes of young men based on their pursuit of happiness and guiding principles.

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