Victoria C. Woodhull: “What have the masses known of the essence of the issues that have formed the platform of the political parties for the…”

Are they not better qualified to direct legislation now than the wisest among us?

Who will dare to assert that they are not even now seeking another Moses to lead “His people” up out of Egypt?

Verily, verily, I say unto you, this people vaunteth and puffeth itself with knowledge, but wisdom hath surely departed to the lowly ones of earth!

Religion, clad in its robes “of purple and fine linen,” faring “sumptuously every day,” forgetting that Christ was cradled in a manger, and that His disciples were fishermen, continually cries, as did the “Pharisees and hypocrites” of old…