Public Activity 127 sion. In the first chapter, Ellen Key turns against the "world power which enslaves the spirit, the whole social-economic system under which wills are being bowed. Proceeding from great ideal view-points, she gives us glimpses of the demoralising influences which power exercises in various departments of life. In hasty review there pass before our eyes, pictures of capitalism with sword drawn in defence of its economic interests; of Germany trampling the Danish nationality in Sonderjylland ; of Russia de- stroying the Finnish Constitution; of France performing the Dreyfus drama. We grow justly indignant with it all. But, she asks, have we nothing to vex us nearer home? And she proceeds to draw a strong contrast between the deep indignation which we feel at outrages against liberty occurring abroad, and the apathetic unconcern with which we tolerate iniquities in our own coun- try. She deplores the fact that apathy and egotism to a great extent fill the place with young and old which ideal enthusiasm ought to hold, and that one may find the youth shrugging their shoulders and saying: "What is the use?" when they ought to be up in arms against prejudice and injustice.