112 Ellen Key man and woman, because Nature prevents such equality even when woman violates her laws/ As the most absurd misunderstandings came to light, and the onsets had to be answered, Ellen Key plunged deeper and deeper into the study of existing conditions, as well as of old and new Hterature on the subject. She had long observed how the "comedy of love" was being performed on the stage of real life, how ignorance and hypocrisy indiscriminately played a positive r61e even in highly cultured homes. She saw the need of pointing out, from a social, historical, and psychological point of view, the wrong direction to which the woman-emancipation tended, and thus she encountered all those interwoven questions: sex-love, marriage, education. She treats these subjects directly in Thought-Images, The Century of the Child, Lifelines, and, indirectly, in Men and Works. True to her individual disposition, she met these personal attacks with great patience. But, with the passing of the years, she has seen so much of suffering and unhappiness, as ^ In her later book, The Woman Movement, Ellen Key has cleared away some of the misunderstandings caused by " Missbrukad Kvinnokraft," ''Kvinnopsiicologi och Kvinlig Logik." {Woman's Energies Misdirected, Woman Pyschology and Woman Logic.)