Victoria C. Woodhull: “There are too few who understand the real rights of man, and too many who do not wish to understand them.”

If the angel in the bush were possible, why may not angels manifest the wisdom, power, and justice of God in our legislative halls?

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?

Where are all the great of the past; its orators, philosophers and statesmen; Confucius, Zoroaster, Moses, David, Solomon, Lycurgus, Demosthenes, Cicero, Bonaparte, Washington, and many others, of all nations and climes, to whom history…