Victoria C. Woodhull: “If such be the course events must take, what is the lesson to be gathered by that part of the world’s people who speak…”

Prisons would be converted into asylums and workshops for the weak and unfortunate, and their keepers into superintendents and teachers.

Are not their minds expanded to the comprehension of the great principles of governmental justice?

Religion, clad in its robes “of purple and fine linen,” faring “sumptuously every day,” forgetting that Christ was cradled in a manger, and that His disciples were fishermen, continually cries, as did the “Pharisees and hypocrites” of old…

As the beams reflected from the mountain top are of the sun, and not the mountains, so are these spiritual rays of the spiritual sun, and not of the individual reflecting them, or through whom they may chance to shine.