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Victoria C. Woodhull: “Where are all the great of the past; its orators, philosophers and statesmen; Confucius, Zoroaster, Moses, David…”

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Where are all the great of the past; its orators, philosophers and statesmen; Confucius, Zoroaster, Moses, David, Solomon, Lycurgus, Demosthenes, Cicero, Bonaparte, Washington, and many others, of all nations and climes, to whom history points as having stood hundreds of years in advance of their times?
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull reflects on the legacy of great historical figures and their advanced thinking.

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