Victoria C. Woodhull: “Anything that is accompanied by compulsion is no proof of individual honesty.”

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…

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!