I20 Ellen Key- to interpret Vauvenargues' line of thought to mean that just because our will is deter- mined by our nature, that is, primarily by our desires, instincts, and passions, it is principally this domain we ought to investigate and culti- vate? Our actions are dependent on our impulses, on the motives which are strongest. Hence the goal of our education and self- development ought to be to seek the impulses, cultivate the habits, enhance the feelings, and associate with the thoughts which later may become strong influential motives for our actions. When all this—seeking, cultivation, enhancement, and association—becomes the result of education and self-cultivation which is consciously directed with the intention of governing our desires, instincts, and passions, then are they not acts of will v^hich we our- selves determine? Is it possible to gain a philosophy of life by depending upon a theory that lacks logical consistency? When this lack of freedom of the will is urged as the reason why fidelity in love should not be promised, since love may cease independently of one's will, and accordingly the conscien- tious hesitate to give their vows, we shrink from the consequences. But, if we read on we find that Ellen Key