Victoria C. Woodhull: “Let a limitation be put upon these patented privileges, so that the public good may be still further promoted.”

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

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?

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

Are not their minds expanded to the comprehension of the great principles of governmental justice?