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Victoria C. Woodhull: “Yet stand they do, and with contemptuous pride, Fling Reason, Progress, Hope and Faith aside.”

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Yet stand they do, and with contemptuous pride, Fling Reason, Progress, Hope and Faith aside.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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This passage criticizes the resistance to reason and progress by those in power.

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