APPENDIX QUOTATIONS FROM PRESS UTTERANCES ABOUT ELLEN KEY ON HER SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY THE well-known Danish critic, George Brandes, writes: "... Ellen Key has influenced women as no one else. . . . She has known her sex. Women have felt themselves understood by her. . . . She has widened their views, overcome their prejudices, liberated their thoughts, awakened their courage to live. She has given women self-confidence. She has instilled hope. . . . Ellen Key is a purity enthusiast. Though caring little for the external forms of moral- ity, she yet Hves and breathes the highest and purest moral atmosphere. . . . She is and remains a brave and noble priestess of high personal culture." Eugen Diederichs of Jena, one of Germany's fore- most publishers, writes: " . . .1 think of Ellen Key as a worthy counterpart of otir Excellence Hackel, an Excellence Number 2, just as warm-hearted, and with the same artistic nature, just as derided, as great an optimist and liberator by her faith in the good of human beings. ... Is not her demand for the evolu- tion of the soul the same as the principle of culture in Humboldt's mind? . . . One fragrant warm May day, 179