It is the attaching, in practice, of absolute value to something that can have no absolute value which makes possible all the various degrees of poverty that belong to the laboring or producing classes.
Woodhull highlights that assigning absolute value to non-absolute entities contributes to poverty among laborers.
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Are not their minds expanded to the comprehension of the great principles of governmental justice?
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?
Prisons would be converted into asylums and workshops for the weak and unfortunate, and their keepers into superintendents and teachers.
Who will dare to assert that they are not even now seeking another Moses to lead “His people” up out of Egypt?