...to urge self-examination ; assuredly, therefore, not to court applause, but to induce con viction. Must it be my misfortune to offend ? bear in mind...have wedded the cause of human improvement ; staked it on my reputation, my fortune, and my life ; and as, for it, I threw behind me in earliest youth...

...progress has been at once my occupation and my passion. Course of Popular Lectures, vol. ii, p. 27. I have wedded the cause of human improvement; staked on it my reputation, my fortune, and my life. Course of Popular Lectures, vol. i, pp. 71-72. ,i PREFACE AT a moment when .the -women of the United...

...its perception." At once modest in her personal habits and adept at self-dramatization, she claimed: "I have wedded the cause of human improvement; staked...the luxuries of ease and European aristocracy ... so will I ... devote what remains to me of talent, strength, fortune, and existence, to the same sacred...

...that for which some have not the courage and others not the independence. I am here, not to flatter the ear, but to probe the heart; not to minister to...have wedded the cause of human improvement; staked it on my reputation, my fortune, and my life; and as, for it, I threw behind me in earliest youth the...

...unfortunately were subsequently lost. Her tomb in the Spring Grove Cemetery in that city bears this epitaph: I have wedded the cause of human improvement, /staked on it my fortune, my reputation, and my life./ Humankind is but one family./Theeducationof it's youth should...