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Victoria C. Woodhull: “The needle is not truer to the pole than is Nature to the truth.”

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The needle is not truer to the pole than is Nature to the truth.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

Editor's note · Context

She compares the truth of nature to a needle's accuracy to the North Pole, emphasizing its reliability.

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