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The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the terrestrial globe.
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Quincy emphasizes the unique capacity of humans to acquire knowledge, highlighting its importance in the human experience.
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It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence.
No man can be surprised that such a cause was swept away by a moral and political whirlwind; that it carried with it all the institutions of civil society, so that its march was a wild desolation.
If its operation should turn out more advantageous to them, it will be more honorable for us; and I never can object to entering formally into an obligation to do that which, upon every virtuous principle, ought to be done without it.
Can you wonder that they shrink from the light of free discussion--that they skulk from the grasp of freedom and of truth?
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