Public Activity loi wanted half freed from Christianity and half sanctified by it. . . . The sovereign right of the individual conscience to decide in matters of faith and moraHty has continued. It has done its part in shaping our whole democratic century, politically as well as religiously. Its inner tendency a thinker has pertinently expressed as pantheistic, as a striving to break down the boundaries first between man and nature, and finally between man and God. And this belief in the oneness of man and nature, the obedience to law in all that happens is Monism." After bravely and solemnly explaining why she could no longer bear the name of Christian and that the Christian faith with her had given place to Monism, we understand that, when we read her words, we must proceed on the assumption that it is from the point of view of this philosophy that Ellen Key judges events, builds up propositions, proves asser- tions, and founds hopes. It was from Spinoza and Goethe that she had her Monism. At that time, she had not read a page of Haeckel by whom Monism was discussed ten years later. In Lifelines, ii., she has further expounded her faith. Ellen Key's individualistic morale of happi-