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Fouler, baser, more ungodly counsel was never uttered, since it was said to our first parents in the garden of Eden, “On the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt not surely die.
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Mann condemns the corrupting influence of ungodly counsel on society's understanding of liberty.
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