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PREFACE.
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Many of these women have already found, as they deserve, faithful and loving chroniclers. To introduce their names here would only serve to swell this volume far beyond its present modest dimensions, and would render it useless as a record of the most daring heroines of Freethought; so I have contented myself with sketching these few central female figures in the history of Radical Religion. And my only hope in grouping them thus together is to win for them, from those to whom they are comparatively unknown, save as names only, a little of the admiration and respect which I myself have ever felt for them because of the dignity and moral heroism of their lives.
June, 1876. S. A. U.
