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156 Ellen Key
charity, the value of which she doubts, but
many little acts point to her strong social
feeling, acts which "charitable" folk would
do well to imitate. For instance, she has
never sent New Year cards since she heard of
a postman who was prostrated one New Year's
day! Neither has she, since her first visits
to a circus, a horse-race, vaudeville, and comic
opera when she formed her own opinion of
them, ever again sought like amusements,
finding them valueless. Many similar traits
could be related of her. And with all this
she possesses the calmest courage to follow
her own convictions and to brave all storms
when driven into them by her own inner
necessity. It is worthy of mention that she
was found among the speakers^ at Ladugards-
gardet,^ one first of May, to the horror of all
her friends, except such as were socialists.
Ellen Key is never led by anything but her
own innermost intuition, and, for her, defiance
for its own sake is as foreign as the love of
battle for the sake of battle. And when, in
1903, she left the community where she had
withstood so many onslaughts, it was neither
faint-heartedness nor discouragement which
' In behalf of a normal workday for women.
* A large open field on the outskirts of Stockholm.
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