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We had the shaping of the destinies of half a continent intrusted to our keeping.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “We had the shaping of the destinies of half a continent intrusted to our keeping.”
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Mann speaks to the immense responsibility of shaping the future of a continent.
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