Victoria C. Woodhull: “This war was either a necessary result of existing causes or else it was a great national blunder.”

At no time since the close of the Revolutionary War has there been a time more fitting and inviting for such a work.

Can mouldering relics, or can fossiled creeds, Provide the quickening age her mighty needs?

And this is no more true of the pauper laborers of Europe and the slave laborers of Asia than it is of the free labor of America.

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.