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This is the lowest standard of duty that any one who aspires to be a Christian or a gentleman can set up for his guidance.
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Mann asserts that aspiring to be a Christian or a gentleman requires setting a standard of duty based on equality.
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My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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