For one million dollars, and without the straining of a muscle, he receives five million dollars direct, which, reinvested from time to time as it increases, amounts at the end of the forty years to not less than fifteen millions dollars.
Woodhull illustrates the exponential growth of wealth through investment without labor, critiquing economic inequality.
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Our Government is a nearer approach to a popular form, and more nearly allied to true freedom and justice than any other in existence.
To do so carries no conviction nor prophetic knowledge of what must be next, as a necessary sequence.
What, then, should be the sphere of justice in maintaining equality in freedom?
In such a condition of things, courts of justice, with all their attendant judges, bailiffs and attorneys-at-law, would find their occupation gone.