How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal … - Frances Wright

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As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.

Frances Wright

How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

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