Victoria C. Woodhull: “But what does history tell of the foundation and dissolution of…”

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But what does history tell of the foundation and dissolution of governments, and what illustrations of the law of progress does it afford?

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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull questions the historical foundations and progress of governments, seeking to understand their evolution.

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It is well enough to cry peace when war rages, but the crying will not bring it.

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

Gold is relatively valuable for the general uses it can be made to subserve; so, too, and only so, are all other products.

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.

Victoria C. Woodhull: “But what does history tell of the foundation and dissolution of governments, and what illustrations of the law of…”