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of enlightening and instructing the grossly ignorant—of infusing new energy into the indolent and enervated—of lessening the terrible amount of crime at present prevailing—and of placing truth and religion in a purer and more elevated light would confer a benefit not on the country of Mexico alone, but on mankind.

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