Let a person be cast upon a fertile island, without pecuniary means, and he will live by labor from its fertility; but let him fall upon an utterly barren and sterile land, and all the millions of a Rothschild would not insure his existence.
Woodhull illustrates the necessity of labor for survival, regardless of wealth, using the metaphor of a fertile versus barren island.
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