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Victoria C. Woodhull: Can mouldering relics, or can fossiled creeds, Provide the quickening age her mighty needs?

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Can mouldering relics, or can fossiled creeds, Provide the quickening age her mighty needs?
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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This passage questions whether outdated beliefs can meet the needs of a changing society.

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