io8 Ellen Key When Ellen Key chose as a motto for her " Missbnikad Kvinnokraft," "Woman's His- tory is Love," it must have been her belief that at the least the women would not attempt to dispute her, and that the little book would be all that was necessary on this subject, on which she would have preferred to keep silent and where she imagined she would be readily understood. Instead, there ensued a battle which found its vent in a mass of articles, and fifteen pamphlets, in which women as- sailed Ellen Key for her false doctrines. All these writings proved that Ellen Key had hit vulnerable points in the equal-rights women's system. The little book was sharply criti- cised from suffrage quarters also in neighbour- ing countries; though hailed with sympathy and admiration from all other sides: They spoke of "desertion" and in their excitement overlooked what she had spoken and written before in the same line. The fanatical sectarianism, which unfor- timately adheres to many woman's rights champions, brings in its train, as always where such spirit reigns, a prejudiced pre- sentation of an opponent's opinion. "Ellen Key has become unfaithful to the ideas of her youth, ' ' they said. One of their best advocates