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Victoria C. Woodhull: “While this condition of ignorance and perverseness keeps the world inharmonious and subjected to suffering, we should…”

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While this condition of ignorance and perverseness keeps the world inharmonious and subjected to suffering, we should avail ourselves of all the alleviatory methods that can be suggested in our present system.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull calls for the use of methods to alleviate suffering caused by societal ignorance.

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