98 Ellen Key ways deplored in the equal-rights women she here assailed anew in her own name, as well as in behalf of her deceased friends. What was more natural than that some one from the opposite camp should turn to combat the opinions she expressed which also dealt with such dangerous subjects as love, marriage, and religion ? Under the heading ' * Women-Author Types of the Naturalistic Trend in the Eighties," Eva Fryxell had attacked the three representatives of the thoughts and views of large groups of highly intelligent people, espe- cially for their conception of true womanliness, family life, and woman's position in the home. And in several issues of the same periodical Ellen Key and her friends were charged with harbouring immoral tendencies. Ellen Key was not slow to reply. From their opposite camps the conflicting theories of life, Christianity on the one hand, evolu- tion on the other, strove against each other. Ellen Key's final remarks in this controversy may be found in somewhat revised form in Tankebilder I {Images of Thought) (see "Self-Assertion" and "Self-Renunciation"). Already in her early youth Ellen Key had found the Christian ideal irreconcilable with life. Little by little she fought her way to