Public Activity 129 out which other fortifications are of little avail. ' In the third chapter, she brings her country- men face to face with the Norwegian question, in regard to which she considers the Swedish feeling of liberty and justice even more unde- fined and vague than it is with reference to the question of union rights. Long preparation, confirmed principles, and thorough knowledge of the subject, preceded Ellen Key's utterances, now, as always. Through her friendship with Bj6mson she learned early in life to understand the import of the question from the Norwegian point of view. And, during the many years that she was actively interested in Swedish politics with her father, she learned to differentiate Swedish and Greater Swedish patriotism. Among the notes she made during Bj6m- son's visit to Stockholm in 1873, there is the following referring to Norway and Sweden: "In our conscious assurance of being the greater, older, and more illustrious people, we are unable to feel genuine sjmipathy with Norway, now that it wants to go its own way and try its own strength, before perfectly amalgamating with us, as we would like. The two countries are like two brothers, of