Were these fully established upon a basis of mutual interest instead of upon the policy of each obtaining all the personal and selfish advantages possible, there could no such strifes as the one convulsing Europe to-day ever occur.
Woodhull emphasizes the importance of mutual interest in preventing conflicts like those seen in Europe.
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Prisons would be converted into asylums and workshops for the weak and unfortunate, and their keepers into superintendents and teachers.
Are they not better qualified to direct legislation now than the wisest among us?
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?
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!