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132 Ellen Key
because, with true national feeling, she had
counselled the Swedish people to act like
Swedes, that is—^justly, intelligently, nobly,
and sanely. While she may have over-
estimated the Norwegian national spirit, that
only shows the natural one-sidedness of that
righteousness which forces one to close the
eyes to the weakness of the person one believes
oppressed. Ellen Key, as she herself says, is
no Norway fanatic. She does not absolve
Norway from all blame in the Union conflict.
She concedes that the Norwegian politicians
have occupied themselves too much with
party politics instead of principles, with
side issues instead of the main cause. But she
also points out what had been accomplished
in Norway during the nineties alone, in the
line of political, judicial, religious, and social
justice, and remarks that nearly all of these
reforms had been repeatedly proposed during
these years in our Swedish Riksdag, but had
been tiuned down; and she adds: "Since
from my point of view the expression of justice
and humanity in legislation is the most deeply
effective work of civilisation, I consider it
proven that in regard to this kind of culture
Norway shows itself an able, active youth,
tied to one temporarily crippled." However
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