Public Activity 113 a consequence of falsely dealing with these questions, that her courage and her feeling of justice have been expressed in a more and more uncompromising teaching of the individ- ual's right to decide his own life, and arrange it according to his own need, provided, how- ever, that life-enlargement is won thereby, which, in Ellen Key's interpretation, means an upward ascending development. ^'i^' However changing and diverging her utter- " '^• ances may seem, they are only variations in different keys of the same theme, and, to a Hstening ear, they will blend into a harmonious final chord. Many have been the causes which have led Ellen Key into a more and more profound consideration of these and similar problems. In the foregoing chapters on Youth, it has been shown that she was bred in the conscious- ness of great love as the highest factor in life. Through the literature she perused, her eyes were early opened to the sacredness of true marriage. Thus the heart soil was prepared early, and, later in life in her own experiences was sown the seed which grew into tall cy- presses. Because only such have grown on her own path, she has expended all her strength in teaching others how to care for their roses.