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Horace Mann: “The exception I mean, embraces those laws of men which are clearly contrary to the law of God.”

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The exception I mean, embraces those laws of men which are clearly contrary to the law of God.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann highlights the importance of distinguishing between human laws and divine laws.

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