You who cannot yet endure its brightness hide yourselves behind clouded dogmas, creeds and theories.
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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Let us have truth, then, even if it strips away the last of our preconceived opinions.
Truth is no longer feared, no matter how terribly it may shock the sensibilities of the religiously-educated and philosophically-dwarfed intellect.
The world of mind demands facts, not theories.
The deduction, then, is that the cause of physical life is universally the same, the manifestations being varied according to the properties involved in them.
Special enactments for special contingencies are inconsistent with our conception of the nature of that general law by which all is governed.
A God possessing such inconsistent infinite powers as are usually ascribed to him, is fast being discarded by all thinkers.
It is beginning to dawn upon mankind that “the only true God” must be beyond our comprehension as the universe is, and that it is folly or presumptive egotism to assert that God is this or that.
No, the theory of a special Providence is fast giving place to new and better things—to law and order.
All forms, then, of thought, emotion and sensation are the legitimate result of the expenditure of power, and may be arrayed in support of the premises that Life, Power, and Motion, wherever found, are Unitary.
The conclusion seems inevitable that mind can influence mind, whether it be within a physical organization or out of it.
Whence all these thoughts and impressions that steal into consciousness through no apparent form?