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-