102 Ellen Key ness has given rise to both amazement and indignation. Egotism, they say, would there- by gain an unworthy dominion of altruism. But how does Ellen Key define individualism? Let us turn for example to her own words in the Freedom of the Perso7iality. "No individ- ualist persuades himself that he lives for any- body's sake but his own, or for any other object than to develop and ennoble all the resources of his being. But the more fully he attains his self-realisation, the more strongly does he feel the complexity within; he is as sensitive to the weal and woe of others as he is to his own." Similarly, she speaks of the morale of happi- ness as against the morale of duty. When the young ask: "What shall we do to become useful?" she cries to them: "Be seekers of happiness! . . . With the very highest de- mands upon happiness!" Then she tells them what she means by the seeking of happi- ness: "Development of all the powers of soul and body, avoiding such amusements and indulgences, competitions, and pastimes as tend spiritually or physically to degrade, vulgarise, or corrupt." Here, it is plainly evident that only the grossest misunderstanding or purposely falsi-