Man, representing in form all that has gone before, is the result of the grand chain of progressive material formations; and, having combined within his physical form a portion of every element contained in the world, he may be likened in his infancy to the infancy of the earth.
Woodhull likens humanity to a culmination of all previous material formations in the universe.
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