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Public Activity 125
voices of those trying to solve the great social
problem, the mutual interfusion of Individ-
ualism and Socialism.
In a review of this book of Ellen Key's,
Professor Gustaf Steffen said: "So far as I
know there has not been written, either in
English, German, or French, any compre-
hensive popular treatise which, with such
fearless independence, such straightforward-
ness in argument, inspiring confidence, such
epigrammatically pointed language, poetic and
polished form, has wrestled with the newest
of all questions, viz., how to find the higher
unity which harmonises the individualistic
and socialistic tendencies of our age. . . . An
exhaustive contrast study of Nietzsche's and
Tolstoy's ideas is one of the most alluring
undertakings that our day has to offer an
essayist like Ellen Key, with her sure in-
stinct for the inner unity of nature's organic
contrasts."
The final pages in the last chapter are an
exhortation to the youth of other countries to
follow the example which England then af-
forded. Seeing youth influenced by the spirit of
reaction, she tried to inspire in them hopes for
the future and desire for action, with words
like these : "The noble age of youth is capable
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