Excerpt from A Lecture by Victoria Claflin Woodhull, (Mrs. John Biddulph Martin) In the Boston Theatre, Boston, U. S. An., October 22nd, 1876, Before 3, 000 People: The Review of a Century, or the Fruit of Five Thousand Years In other words, what is the condition politically, industrially, socially, religiously? Is it such as will make us rejoice in its review? Are our centennial fruits such as He would pronounce good, so that we may rest upon the seventh day from all our labours? In the first place, what have we done politically? It is to government that people largely owe their prosperity or adversity a good government meaning continuous prosperity; a bad one continuous adversity, or else alternate seasons of each, in which the latter consume the fruits of the former; in which the people see-saw, up and down each decade in which, like the Israelites, the people journey in the wilderness forty years in search Of the promised land, to which God would bring them suddenly, if they would keep all His commandments, and neither worship nor sacri fice to the Golden Calf. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.