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Mark the progress in the public sentiment of Christendom, within the last few centuries, on the subject of slavery and the rights of man.
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Mann notes the significant evolution of public sentiment regarding slavery and human rights over the centuries.
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Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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