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Supplement i59
discussion of moral and psychological phe-
nomena. Our culture has been divided into
two opposing camps ; on the one side the ortho-
dox religions, on the other the purely aesthetic,
which was supposed to precede the radical
culture party. . . . With us it is considered
greatest to romance over the fate and conflict
of the soul; but to study the life of the soul,
without accessory of myth and outward events,
to compare, to seek a norm, to stumise, and to
shape that perfection, the craving for which
lies at the very root of every struggle, to write
about the universal and the ideal—this has
been considered an occupation of lower grade,
and of less importance." In other countries
it has not been so. Theoretical and moral
interest in the potent forces in human life are
more developed, freer from prejudice, and
more desirous of truth. Consequently she
has been hailed with enthusiasm in the greater
civilised countries, and her books have been
pubHshed in ten European languages, some in
fifteen editions, others in seven and eight.
When the first voliimes of her monumental
work, Life-Lines, came out, she left Sweden for
some years, contemplating a permanent stay
abroad. She made long stops in Germany,
Austria, Hungary, Holland, Belgium, Switzer-
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