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To do so carries no conviction nor prophetic knowledge of what must be next, as a necessary sequence.
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Victoria C. Woodhull
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gutenberg.orgVictoria C. Woodhull: “To do so carries no conviction nor prophetic knowledge of what must be next, as a necessary sequence.”
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Woodhull warns that without conviction, assertions lack predictive power about future events.
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The same laws that bring fruit to perfection and dissolution perfect and dissolve societies.
It is in the people themselves, and in the fundamental principles upon which society is built, and those which the people allow government to be administered upon.
In this way, labor may hope to arise from its present position of degradation to sit side by side with capital in all public and profitable positions and those of honor and trust.
Why do they advocate any general government at all?