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234, to whom she ever proved a faithful and tender mother.

"Our first knowledge of Mrs. Martin," says George Jacob Holyoake, "was as an opponent of Socialism. But as soon as she saw intellectual truth in it she paused in her opposition. Long and serious was the conflict the change in her convictions caused her; but her natural love of truth prevailed, and she came over to the advocacy of that she had so resolutely and ably assailed. And none who ever offered us alliance rendered us greater service, or did it at greater cost. Beautiful in expression, quick in wit, strong in will, eloquent in speech, coherent in conviction, and of a stainless character, she was incomparable among public women. She was one of the few among the early advocates of English Socialism who saw that the combat against religion could not be confined to an attack on forms of faith—to a mere comparison of creeds—and she attached only a secondary importance to the abuses of Christianity,