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Victoria C. Woodhull: “One of the principal features of natural events has been a tendency on the part of all great nations to acquire…”

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One of the principal features of natural events has been a tendency on the part of all great nations to acquire universal dominion.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull discusses the historical tendency of nations to seek universal dominion.

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