The cause being competent, the law of operation natural, and the result consequently legitimate, can another’s idea of right step in to sit in judgment over the action, and render a verdict of justice to the actor?
In this passage, Woodhull questions the legitimacy of external judgments on individual actions, advocating for a deeper understanding of causality.
Share
More from Victoria C. Woodhull
Charity, with its long cloak of justice escaped, has long enough covered a multitude of sins.
Production lies at the basis of all progress.
It is well enough to cry peace when war rages, but the crying will not bring it.
Every thinking person knows that no such persons or principles are in authority now, and that they have not been these many years.