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Now fill up the space between them with what you please, and call it argument, law, gospel, or what you will, every body must see that it is nothing, and can be nothing but Mephistophiles’ jugglery.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Now fill up the space between them with what you please, and call it argument, law, gospel, or what you will, every body…”
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Mann condemns the manipulation of legal arguments that obscure the truth of the situation.
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