Public Activity 123 glimpse of the same. The life-will of the new- beings is here explained. "Full and warm it embraces all the richness of life, great and gentle, it bows to necessity; fresh and courage- ous, it looks toward the future."^ Though tempted to give more space to this subject, we must turn to other questions treated by Ellen Key. First by learning to know her many-sidedness do we get the true picture of her. Most of the chapters in Thought-Images, The Century of the Child, and Me7i have previously been the subject of lectures and essays printed in various mag- azines. The date is purposely given in order to repudiate the oft-repeated charges of the great impressionability of Ellen Key. It has been said that she has been influenced by the author last read. Efforts have been made to make her "harmless" by thus lessening the impression of her keen insight into the needs of the age. But those who have followed her development have observed how gradually this has unfolded. With an inner consistency, she has gone her own way, and allowed nothing to turn her aside. She has always avoided giving ' Her latest book, Men and Works, makes additional contri- butions toward a better understanding of her life-faith, which is therein illustrated with living examples.