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Rh Fitting words these to be placed on the monument of their author—words which she enforced by a life in unison with them.

She experienced the fate of all reformers, in that after she had given all that was best of herself, her time, her talents, her wealth, her toil, to the interests of mankind, she was at the last neglected as she had been previously calumniated. Time, the Restorer, as well as the Destroyer, will give to her, as to so many others like her, the glory which is rightfully her due, for——

——— Truth shall conquer at the last, As round and round we run; And ever the right comes uppermost, And ever is justice done."

Although it must be confessed that too often, as in Frances Wright’s case, "justice is done” too late to avail aught but to vindicate the memory of the wronged one. That the storms and tempests of the life she voluntarily took upon herself left their impress upon her, we know. One who held