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Were we frank and in earnest, or were we hollow and fraudulent?
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Mann questions the sincerity of people's intentions regarding their commitment to freedom and justice.
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Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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.
Is there not one spot where we can stand side by side, as friends, sympathize with each other, and act together in harmony?
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