Victoria C. Woodhull: “In the widest freedom there is the most virtue, because, under…”

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In the widest freedom there is the most virtue, because, under restraint, compulsion often passes for virtue, while its semblance only is there.

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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull argues that true virtue arises from freedom rather than compulsion.

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