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Victoria C. Woodhull: “In whatever light, then, human government is viewed, these philosophic laws should never be lost sight of nor…”

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In whatever light, then, human government is viewed, these philosophic laws should never be lost sight of nor disregarded; but the causes of all the rises and falls, transformations, modifications and amalgamations, should be sought by the application of those laws to the objective points under consideration.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull stresses the importance of philosophical laws in analyzing the dynamics of human government.

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