But instead of a few people owning the whole of it, and farming it out to all the rest at the best possible prices, the people will possess it themselves in their own right, through just laws, paying for its possession to the government such moderate rates of taxes as shall be necessary to maintain the government.
Woodhull argues for collective ownership of land to benefit all citizens.
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What is seen is not the reality, but that through which the reality makes itself known.
The tendencies of government from earliest historic time have persistently been to universal sway.
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.
To do so carries no conviction nor prophetic knowledge of what must be next, as a necessary sequence.