Victoria C. Woodhull: “A great national question is wanted, to prevent a descent into pure sectionalism.”

Churches would be converted into lecture-rooms; and preachers, now hurling their anathemas against unrepentant sinners, would become professors of the great principles through and by which the world, and all things, have been brought from…

Prisons would be converted into asylums and workshops for the weak and unfortunate, and their keepers into superintendents and teachers.

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?

The time is not far distant when the possession of spirit-sight will be accounted of the first importance, not to those only who possess it, but to the public generally, and will be sought for and made practical to the honor of its…