loo Ellen Key Those who call themselves Christians construe the Bible as best they can to prove their superficial Christianity to be real. Ellen Key observes how Christianity's line of defence varies from age to age. "Less is now said of the God-Man, the atonement for the sin of the world. Instead we hear much of the personification of the ideal of Love. On our relation to him depends, not our eternal bliss—eternal woe is one of those 'imperishable truths' now antiquated—but our part in the religious and ethical force which alone is able to transform the heart and deliver it from sin and especially selfishness." With relentless logic, she proceeds to set forth the manifold contradictions between the life we live and the dictates of Christianity, which daily cause twinges of conscience, unless it becomes a matter of dull habit to take these contradictions for granted. She gives a his- toric resume of the development of religion and puts Protestantism in its proper historic place. "Christianity as a religion reached its old age in the Reformation. . . . Protestantism ushered in the vacillating system of bargaining with the Christian ideals, which shows its influence on all departments of life, family, state, art, literature, science which one has