We have but to question the earth whether or not, from its incipiency onward through countless ages, it has obeyed the one great command, Progress? and in answer received, determine if, in the past, God has found it necessary to change the great fundamental laws of the universe.
Woodhull poses a rhetorical question about the earth's progress and its adherence to fundamental laws, suggesting a divine oversight.
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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?
Are not their minds expanded to the comprehension of the great principles of governmental justice?
Prisons would be converted into asylums and workshops for the weak and unfortunate, and their keepers into superintendents and teachers.
As the beams reflected from the mountain top are of the sun, and not the mountains, so are these spiritual rays of the spiritual sun, and not of the individual reflecting them, or through whom they may chance to shine.