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I30 Ellen Key
whom the elder, whose prestige is recognised
and whose power is manifest, proposes to the
younger, who has neither the one nor the
other, that they combine their land, share
everything,—equal rights and equal duties,
—and receives the pertinent answer: 'No,
thanks! That means that you would be
master, for you are more able to benefit me
than I you! And none would believe me
capable of anything, and I would never learn
to depend on myself even when I might do
so with profit. No! Leave me alone. Let me
fare badly, if need be, just so that I attain
my own stature. Maybe when I am a grown
man, we may unite, for then our forces would
be equal, and we may pull evenly, something
we cannot do now.
'
' Laws which are not forms for a content be-
come irritating bonds, and the true content
love between nations—cannot be created
thereby. Therefore, let love alone, and it
will slowly grow in peace by itself. A day
will come when the two peoples will clasp hands
to form an indissoluble union with legal bond.
But before that day we shall have to mingle
blood and tears, have mutual memories and
mutual joys. And if that time does not
come in the way we Swedes want, or find to
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