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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Steam and water have relieved muscle of nearly all its most laborious occupations and increased the capacity of production a thousand fold.
The same laws that bring fruit to perfection and dissolution perfect and dissolve societies.
Now, what we require is a measure of values of just as fixed and absolute a character as any of these.
And this is no more true of the pauper laborers of Europe and the slave laborers of Asia than it is of the free labor of America.