Public Activity 103 fied citations can transform the gospel of happiness, preached by the full-blooded al- truist, Ellen Key, into a doctrine of self-in- dulgence, and only by leaving out the second half of the truth which she emphasises. Well may one deplore the vague fancies concern- ing these words which so often have caused the fruitful conflict of principles to degenerate into a sterile battle of words. New moral doctrines arise, time and again, and have always done so. The most recent, now being developed, is the individualistic, and is a much needed complement to the altruistic moral teaching, which bases its message on the theory of science in which all phases of human existence are treated as an evolution of the positive and last stage in the life of humanity. Rightly to be an altruist one must without doubt also be an individualist. In the summer of 1894, she again visited her friends, the Von Vollmars in Bavaria, walking on foot through Tyrol. Ellen Key is not fond of the "puffing locomotives" by means of which one rushes through places; she prefers the stage-coach, "that uncom- fortable and fascinating means of observing a country's peculiar features," but she likes better still to wander on foot when that is