How wonderful has been the march of the human mind in these last thirty years ... so may it be till the last link of the chains of slavery is broken and the banner of freedom waves over the whole earth! (Frances Wright)

How wonderful has been the march of the human mind in these last thirty years ... so may it be till the last link of the chains of slavery is broken and the banner of freedom waves over the whole earth!

Frances Wright

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