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Victoria C. Woodhull: “Since then the mind has come up to the work, and rescued the body from the laborious servitude of former times; and now…”

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Since then the mind has come up to the work, and rescued the body from the laborious servitude of former times; and now a single mind, directing a single machine, produces an hundred-fold more than it could when acting through its own personal machine.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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She discusses the efficiency gained through the use of machines and the role of the mind in directing labor.

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