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No matter how seemingly unconnected with human affairs or remote from human interests a newly-discovered truth may appear to be, time and genius will… - Horace Mann
" "No matter how seemingly unconnected with human affairs or remote from human interests a newly-discovered truth may appear to be, time and genius will some day make it minister to human welfare. When Dr. Franklin was once sceptically asked what was the use of some recondite and far-off truth which had just been brought to light, "What," said he, "is the use of babies?"
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About Horace Mann
Horace Mann (4 May 1796 – 2 August 1859) was an American education reformer and abolitionist
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The creation is a museum, all full, and crowded with wonders and beauties and glories. One door, and one only is open, by which you can enter this magnificent temple. It is the door of Knowledge. The learned laborer, the learned peasant, or slave, is ever made welcome at this door, while the ignorant, though kings, are shut out.
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