Capital is putting forth some strong efforts to confine science in its interests, but the teachings of science are of too general and cosmopolitan a character to permit its professors to ally themselves with a pseudo aristocracy—the aristocracy of wealth.
Woodhull critiques the influence of wealth on the teaching of science and advocates for a more universal approach.
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