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Victoria C. Woodhull: “Legislation is the primary constructive point from which better conditions must emanate.”

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Legislation is the primary constructive point from which better conditions must emanate.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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She asserts that effective legislation is crucial for improving societal conditions.

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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?

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Are they not better qualified to direct legislation now than the wisest among us?

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Verily, verily, I say unto you, this people vaunteth and puffeth itself with knowledge, but wisdom hath surely departed to the lowly ones of earth!

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