Victoria C. Woodhull: “It must evolve such a social system as shall leave no single member of the common body to suffer.”

Are they not better qualified to direct legislation now than the wisest among us?

Verily, verily, I say unto you, this people vaunteth and puffeth itself with knowledge, but wisdom hath surely departed to the lowly ones of earth!

If they still live as spirits, if they have had better opportunities of obtaining wisdom and knowledge pertaining to earth-life than we—can this world avail itself of their assistance to establish on earth the government of heaven?

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