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No one will question the right of man to make from nature the most of beauty it is capable of, nor to make it most conducive to all his natural desires.
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Victoria C. Woodhull
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Woodhull defends the right of individuals to enhance nature for their aesthetic and personal desires.
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The chief value, then, of an intimate knowledge of the past is, that from it the future may be foreseen, and that the lesson it teaches may assist in the formation of aids to the natural order of things.
They must and will attain their journey’s end.
Every thinking person knows that no such persons or principles are in authority now, and that they have not been these many years.
The tendencies of government from earliest historic time have persistently been to universal sway.