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FRANCES POWER COBBE.

MISS COBBE, the friend and disciple of Theodore Parker, has placed herself, by her “Intuitive Morals“ and “Darwinism in Morals,“ so completely outside of churches and creeds, that I could not feel as though justice had been done to a brave, true woman if she were not here given the recognition she deserves—a place among those of her sex who stand on the same plane of advanced thought as herself, although some of these are doubtless far more radical in their views than she has yet professed herself to be: her position, as I understand it, being that of the most liberal phase of Unitarianism; or, perhaps, more correctly, that of a Free Relig-