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212 colony. She had thus become acquainted with the spirit and design of the New Harmony colonists, and so, when reluctantly compelled to give up her pet project, she gladly hastened, at the suggestion of the elder Owen, to take editorial charge of the New Harmony Gazette, changed afterward to the Free Enquirer.

She had been for years a Freethinker. To a mind constituted like hers, which sought only for truth and freedom, at whatever cost, and which acknowledged no fealty to the dead past, such a result was inevitable. That fragment of the thoughts of her earlier years, "A Few Days in Athens,” composed in great part during her nineteenth year, gives abundant evidence of-the daring views she held on religious matters, even when but a girl in years. These views had “grown with her growth, and strengthened with her strength”; and so loyal was she to her anti-theologic convictions, that for the sake of the truths she held so dear, when she saw what she considered a pre-