But in that glorious day, the men who sit in the Areopagus of the nation, clothed with the ermine of the law, shall be, as the heathen of old figured the emblem of Justice, blind in the outward eye; and all they know of color shall be to give no color to the law.
Mann envisions a future where justice is blind to race, advocating for equality under the law.
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But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
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This ruinous system of large farms cultivated by slaves showed its effects in Italy, eighteen hundred years ago, when the Roman empire was at the height of its grandeur.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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