The acquisition of knowledge has ever tended to the liberalization of existing orders of things, and it was not until something akin to its general diffusion was obtained that any adequate ideas of the advantages of freedom became fixed in the minds of the people.
Woodhull emphasizes the transformative power of knowledge in achieving freedom.
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