Public Activity 119 humanity perfected through love, must learn to count in thousands of years, not in cent- uries, much less in decades." Before this perfection takes place, however, much may be changed for the better this very day. And the many astute observations and helpful suggestions that abound in Ellen Key's works may conspire to save those who under- stand and who desire to be saved! There is one point in Ellen Key's ethics where she is guilty of a dangerous incon- sistency. It is in the matter of the freedom of the will (see Thought-1mages). "Here it is," she says, "that Vauvenargues develops the deterministic individualism which, though not unassailable from the point of view of logical consistency, is nevertheless assailable from the standpoint of one's experience." The great- est philosophers have encountered the same difficulty so this is no reason for finding fault with Ellen Key. But to what purpose does she quote Vau- venargues, who has reached the same con- clusion as Spinoza, when he says: "We believe ourselves free because we do not know the motives which force us to act. We are not masters of our actions because we are not masters of our natures," when she proceeds