The question now naturally arises, Can human government, then be analyzed, and the facts it presents be found to correspond to the deductions of philosophic law?
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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It must begin to be apparent that the proposition is, that the evolution of government does not differ from that of simplest organic forms either in principle or in mode of operation.
The same laws that govern the growth and multiply the plant also govern society and multiply it.
The same laws that produce and control the units of the animal kingdom produce and control the units of society.
But what does history tell of the foundation and dissolution of governments, and what illustrations of the law of progress does it afford?
All of these facts exemplify another philosophic proposition—that for anything in the universe to remain in its homogeneous condition is impossible, which impossibility is the result of the fact that motion must produce change, while…
While preparing for further and greater conquests he also determined to immortalize his name by making of Nineveh a city at once commensurate with his power and wealth.
It seems strange that a people so used to glory and conquest should not have sooner revolted against such debauchery and dissoluteness.
Vast riches in most kingdoms had led to indolence, effeminacy and licentiousness; but Crœsus thought it unworthy for any person, much less a king, to surrender himself to these.
In many respects Greece may be considered the school-house of the world, wherein it has been taught the rudimentary principles of knowledge, especially that species of knowledge that conduces to the development of wisdom.
It taught the Greeks that a few determined men, fighting in defence of their country, were mightier than a multitude with no such incentive.
Charity, with its long cloak of justice escaped, has long enough covered a multitude of sins.