Public Activity 121 herself contradicts her earlier expressed opin- ion, and declares that "the intrinsic worth of the personality depends largely on whether fidelity is a life-value. One who desires fidel- ity, marshals his impulses, gathers his forces 'around the essential, guards them from chang- ing winds. Hence the will to he faithful is incorporated with one's own integrity, one's inner coherence, one's attitude and dignity of soul. " Here Ellen Key obviously refers to our will, which, judging from this last utterance, evidently does not entirely lack in freedom. Hoffding scores a strong point in his Ethics when he says: "One of the prevailing fallacies is that the will has nothing to do with thought and feel- ing. . . . Under normal and natural con- ditions, the will evolves and confirms what thought has embraced, and what feeling has en- compassed. The will must be present first and last, only thus can it be of assistance in the fatal moment. The two individuals are not subjected to blind fate. The matter is largely of their own choosing and depends upon whether they take life as a whole seriously or not. Marriage, like all unions, requires self- control and effort to endure." In Life-Lines, ii., Ellen Key has dealt more