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Victoria C. Woodhull: “Mentality represents the most important department of the duality which constitutes the source of governmental power…”

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Mentality represents the most important department of the duality which constitutes the source of governmental power; but this, acting alone, would not prove the perfect principle.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull discusses the significance of mentality in the foundation of governmental power.

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