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Victoria C. Woodhull: “Were each person to define his idea of a god, there would be nearly as many different ideals as there are individuals in…”

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Were each person to define his idea of a god, there would be nearly as many different ideals as there are individuals in the nation, thus showing that all knowledge is relative or symbolic.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull suggests that individual interpretations of God vary widely, indicating the relativity of knowledge.

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