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172 Ellen Key
contains a communication to her readers which
explains her object in preluding this monu-
mental work—called classical by some au-
thors—^with the Course of Development of
Sexual Morality. Life-Lmes, i., as well as ii.
and iii., consists of two volimies each. When
the first part appeared, with nine chapters
devoted to the different phases of sex-life, of
legal and illegal unions, with the headings:
" The Evolution of Love ;
" " Love's Freedom ;
"Love's Selection," etc., the author became
the object of dangerous misunderstanding.
Her gospel of love was interpreted as an ex-
pression of so passionate an appreciation of
erotic life that it could be considered her
religion. And this, in spite of the fact that
she had to her credit a large literary output,
barely a twentieth part of which dealt with
erotic problems, as she herself declares.
Now the truth of the matter is that Life-
Lines, ii. as well as iii. had already been
sketched before i., but the latter was published
first because the relation which creates the race
must be the First Article in the Religion of Life.
It is to be deplored that the second and third
volumes were not at once translated into the
languages in which the first volume had become
known. In John Landquist's essay on Ellen
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