Appendix i8i women who, of old, were honoured as Sibyls or Norns. In them were always found a deeper and purer know- ledge of the needs and desires of the soul than in priests, kings, and warriors. ... As to these holy, wise women of the ancient world, so those seeking help and counsel to-day may turn to Ellen Key. They will always find her ready and willing to share the flame of ideals whose caretaker she is called by the spirit to be." Professor G. F. Steffen is one of Sweden's foremost national economists and a profound student of social conditions. He writes of Ellen Key: "It has never been difficult for me to understand and appreciate Ellen Key's life-work as the highest form of ethical striving. The logic we principally must demand of an ethical pioneer is not that of the cognitive faculty, but the logic of the will and the emotions. His first and last mission is, not intellectually to miiTor what surrounds one, but from within oneself to create a new reality, the value of which consists in that it promotes the evolution of life. With the exception of Krapot- kin, I have never known an ethical logician so strong in intuition, so pure in soul as Ellen Key. And, just as my love of Krapotkin is undisturbed by my objections to his scientific methods, my warm respect for Ellen Key is not the least diminished by my discernment of the weak points in her intellectual logic. Neither am I intimidated by her audacity, her good will to brave moral dangers in trying to attain a higher moral reality. All creating activity necessarily brings us into dangers ... at the same time that it saves us from the danger of petrification. Life is