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Public Activity i33
much one bewailed and lamented such "treach-
ery toward her fatherland," there are few at
present who can deny that she was right in
her comparison, at the time and place she
applied it.
In this connection may be mentioned another
action in a certain sense political. Ellen Key
was the first Swede who, following the changed
conditions in Finland in the fall of 1899, went
there and gave a series of lectures,'' in the
crowded assembly hall of the University, and
thus manifested the willingness of the Swedes
to keep up the spiritual intercourse between
the two peoples. She chose the French
Salons as her subject, so as to get a chance in
her last discourse, which dealt with Madame de
Stael, to express indirectly the thoughts and
emotions stirring the minds of the audience.
The lively sympathies Ellen Key aroused
in Finland, and of which the papers bore
witness, in spite of their constraint, found
their final expression in the farewell festival
which was arranged in her honour, members
' At the time of the disruption of the Union in 1905, Ellen Key
came before the public with a discourse in favour of peace at
Heden in Gothembourg, and in the autumn she gave the ad-
dress which was later published under the title: The Future of
Scandinavianism.
'Later published in At-^"v.m.
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