Though they all possessed many traits of character which the present age cannot admire, they must ever be regarded as having given general civilization those great impulses that have so rapidly evolved the world from barbarism.
Woodhull acknowledges the complex legacy of historical figures who advanced civilization despite their flaws.
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It is not sufficient to simply assert that this or that is thus or so.
Charity, with its long cloak of justice escaped, has long enough covered a multitude of sins.
The chief value, then, of an intimate knowledge of the past is, that from it the future may be foreseen, and that the lesson it teaches may assist in the formation of aids to the natural order of things.
Every thinking person knows that no such persons or principles are in authority now, and that they have not been these many years.