1 64 Ellen Key "With these feelings I returned from the solitude of the forest and was met with a flood of sun and light. "What could I do but bow my head in humility, and invoke Life for more and greater power, the better to deserve all this kindness. "In the hope that this prayer may be granted, I extend to all my sincere thanks. "Ellen Key. "JONSERED, Dec. 1 6, 1909." Her own deep spirit breathes in it. It shows that the pearls in her diadem have not been dimmed by exaltation, nor their purity soiled by slanderers and false interpreters—for they are real. In the foregoing biography I have pointed to the milestones on the road which Ellen Key has travelled. They showed how determining circumstances entered in at the ages of twenty, thirty, forty, and fifty in her life. She has since arrived at her sixtieth year, and then, also, did she experience something of great moment to her. She had long wished for a home of her own, but had been unable to find an appropriate site, but on her sixtieth birth- day the State granted her a place in the Government park reservation, on the Omberg