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