Victoria C. Woodhull: “Or will any one claim that the old, absurd State laws, which were sunk in oblivion by the adoption of these amendments…”

Prisons would be converted into asylums and workshops for the weak and unfortunate, and their keepers into superintendents and teachers.

If they still live as spirits, if they have had better opportunities of obtaining wisdom and knowledge pertaining to earth-life than we—can this world avail itself of their assistance to establish on earth the government of heaven?

Religion, clad in its robes “of purple and fine linen,” faring “sumptuously every day,” forgetting that Christ was cradled in a manger, and that His disciples were fishermen, continually cries, as did the “Pharisees and hypocrites” of old…

Verily, verily, I say unto you, this people vaunteth and puffeth itself with knowledge, but wisdom hath surely departed to the lowly ones of earth!