Victoria C. Woodhull: “By consenting to become a part of the body it gives up special sovereignty over itself and becomes a part of the general…”

Prisons would be converted into asylums and workshops for the weak and unfortunate, and their keepers into superintendents and teachers.

Churches would be converted into lecture-rooms; and preachers, now hurling their anathemas against unrepentant sinners, would become professors of the great principles through and by which the world, and all things, have been brought from…

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!

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?