90 Ellen Key political and historical knowledge, she warned against the base tyranny that manifested itself in the brutal arrest of four young men because they, in the excitement of battle, had not considered the form, while similar views had been expressed with impunity by others who had better understood how to clothe them in scientific and philosophic language. Called to speak before the Liberal Woman's League in Gothenburg, she gave an address on "How Reactions Arise," which was repeated subsequently in Stockholm. And at the in- vitation of the Student Society "Verdandi," she introduced a discussion at a public meet- ing in Upsala the same year on the "Freedom of the Press and Free Speech." The dis- course was soon afterwards issued as a brochure. She reiterated in modern language Talis Qualis" woe over those ' ' who purposely wound the lung in the broad breast of the public," the lung being for her, as for him, free speech. She turned to the legal statutes and showed them to be in conflict with the law of progress. She cried aloud that it is in direct opposition to the civilisation of our day that spiritual ' The nom de plume of C. W. A. Strandberg, a Swedish writer and poet.—Translator's footnote.