The rank and file that have so long blindly followed wherever their leaders commanded are becoming imbued with this spirit, and they begin to realize that they have been mere automatons that have been moved with no acquiescent will of their own.
Woodhull notes that the followers of political leaders are beginning to recognize their own agency.
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