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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.)
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