Public Activity m work needs woman. The woman incapable of work always falls into degrading depend- ence in one form or another, sometimes the most degrading of all—marriage as a means of support. The woman disinclined to work fills the vacancy in her life with a cult of dilettanteism, nonsense, and adventures of which the most dangerous is marriage for pastime. Hence it is not woman's work that I deplore. But I think the emphasis ought to be laid on the kind of work. I pity the women who have no choice, but who are forced by want to accept the first best work offered . . . but I attack those women who in peace and quiet may choose their life vocation, and who yet do not give a thought to so choosing, that the womanly in their nature may find expression in their work. Nature corrects abuses of liberty, but slowly and seriously." What Ellen Key really has said and what she means is that since emancipation is now as good as accomplished for unmarried women, let us use it rightly in accordance with woman's nature. The essential difference that exists between man and woman cannot be obliterated. The agitators for women's emancipation go too far when they speak of absolute equality between