Public Activity 115 to include the school during the child's earliest years, and, through knowledge of his aptitude, he could be led from promiscuous reading to special studies. The greater significance a home holds as an educating factor, the more may be gained in individuality, provided that the children in that home are considered and treated as beings with new individual values to unfold, not to be moulded. In order to have something to give, however, the homes must draw upon the great cultural values which society at large produces. This production on a big scale is man's special mission, according to his peculiar nature. Man's work tends outward, and produces the life values w^hich society at large has to live on; thus he is a direct supporter of society. Woman supports society indirectly, through her inward-tending activity, as the life prin- ciple of the home, and this is especially due to her motherliness, which, to Ellen Key, is identical with her womanliness. Psychologi- cally and physically, the cultivation of the well-being and of the happiness of the family requires all of woman's energies. Personal love is her nature. First in and by love does she create life values on a larger scale. By her greater inborn morality, love attains the