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.
Woodhull emphasizes the importance of understanding history to predict and shape the future.
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It is in the people themselves, and in the fundamental principles upon which society is built, and those which the people allow government to be administered upon.
The same laws that bring fruit to perfection and dissolution perfect and dissolve societies.
They must and will attain their journey’s end.
With its destruction the lives of two great political parties passed away, and left the people with no distinct lines of demarkation.