It is the greatest mistake of the age—it has been the greatest mistake of all ages—to suppose that individual benefit must accrue from the acquisition of wealth at the expense or sacrifice of any general principle of justice.
Woodhull argues against the misconception that personal wealth can be gained without considering justice for all.
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