ii6 Ellen Key joyous harmony between the physical and spiritual needs. Her mission is to hold the balance between the extreme poles of physical desires and asceticism. And through her posi- tive chastity—not negative purity—spiritu- ality is kept alive in the marriage relation. Her mother natiire has not the physical strength that man has, and this influences her mental- ity, which thereby lacks the larger creative power. If she is a happy wife and mother, she must be a secular genius worthily to fill all the duties of the home and, at the same time, attend to outside activities. Whether mother or not, she is called by her very nature to dis- perse her forces among the little details so im- portant for the home, which, though smaller links in the world chain, would cause life to collapse if they were broken away. In the marriage relation, Ellen Key de- mands full mutual freedom, equality, and love as its only ground. Her desire in the many recurring articles has been to give to the pre- sent age a fresh point of view, and a new appraisal of love. She believes in htimanity's development according to natural law, through its own powers to achieve the earthly harmony which is its goal. Not only does she lay bare the