And as finance grows out of the necessities of commerce, it also becomes equally with commerce a humanitarian question.
Victoria C. Woodhull
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Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in the 1872 election. While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for the presidency, some disagree with classifying it as a true candidacy because according to the Constitution she would have been too young to be president if elected.
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Commerce, in its most comprehensive sense, does not apply merely to the exchange of the material products of the world, but to the exchange of intellectual, moral, social and religious products also, and its application thereby becomes…
Thus it appears that the assimilation of the world under one common interest is in the first instance a question of a unity of material interests which must serve as the foundation for all others to build upon.
Were these fully established upon a basis of mutual interest instead of upon the policy of each obtaining all the personal and selfish advantages possible, there could no such strifes as the one convulsing Europe to-day ever occur.
Let the fact once be generally recognized that the world is at last tending to “a unity of the peoples,” and financial and commercial unity are the introductory unities upon which to hasten governmental unity.
Money, as the means of bringing about this intercourse, should receive primary consideration.
First in importance, because it leads to the recognition of the “ultimate condition,” is the question of intercourse between the peoples of the earth.
Political economy, which is a branch of social science, is regarded with favor by many now, and, comprehensively speaking, all these questions which have been looked upon as “too abstract” for common comprehension, are found to be the real…
It will not be many years hence until the science of society will be a recognized branch of every child’s education in the most enlightened portions of the world.
That “money” is susceptible of analysis, and of being predicated upon a scientific basis is no longer to be questioned.
Wherever maxims of temporary policy are the guiding rules, there will ever be alternate construction and destruction; but wherever scientific, demonstrable principles are the governing power, there will be found permanency.
Absolutely there can be no individual title to any part of the soil of any country.