Victoria C. Woodhull: “Is it right that the millions should toil all their lives long, scarcely having comfortable food and clothes, while the…”

Steam and water have relieved muscle of nearly all its most laborious occupations and increased the capacity of production a thousand fold.

What is seen is not the reality, but that through which the reality makes itself known.

In such a condition of things, courts of justice, with all their attendant judges, bailiffs and attorneys-at-law, would find their occupation gone.

The chief value, then, of an intimate knowledge of the past is, that from it the future may be foreseen, and that the lesson it teaches may assist in the formation of aids to the natural order of things.