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Victoria C. Woodhull: “Labor and Capital is a question relating in the first instance to the material prosperity of a people; but secondarily…”

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Labor and Capital is a question relating in the first instance to the material prosperity of a people; but secondarily it reacts upon all other interests—intellectual, moral, physical and religious.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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She connects the material prosperity of a society to its broader intellectual and moral interests.

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