Victoria C. Woodhull: “Strife and animosity will never accomplish half so much as calmness, reason and persuasion.”

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

If they still live as spirits, if they have had better opportunities of obtaining wisdom and knowledge pertaining to earth-life than we—can this world avail itself of their assistance to establish on earth the government of heaven?

If the angel in the bush were possible, why may not angels manifest the wisdom, power, and justice of God in our legislative halls?

Churches would be converted into lecture-rooms; and preachers, now hurling their anathemas against unrepentant sinners, would become professors of the great principles through and by which the world, and all things, have been brought from…