86 Ellen Key her resolve to live in service for others, and thus forget her own fate. Indignation over what she felt to be unrighteousness braced her, turned her away from herself, and brought her into the battle in public life. Up to that time, Ellen Key had commanded unqualified admiration and popularity among young and old on all sides. Moderate and considerate, she had provoked no one. Her activities had so far been confined to the calmer edu- cational work. But from the winter of 1889 Ellen Key entered upon a new era in her life. Development and liberation of the personal- ity is the goal toward which she aims all her efforts. Her lectures and writings in general have always virtually had this object in view. She calls attention to the interaction that takes place between man's ascent to an ever higher development, and his liberation from prejudices based on law-paragraphs. The greater the demands man puts on himself, the less need has society for dealing with him by prohibitions and punishments, and the fewer these become, the sooner will arise the ethnical and intellectual harbinger of civili- sation, the individual. With burning zeal Ellen Key preaches her gospel, counselling each and every one to consider the right and