i82 Ellen Key but a choice between the danger of falling into a deeper and deeper sleep or the danger of awakening to a clearer and clearer consciousness. In Ellen Key's sovd there is a priceless wealth of the courage which leads us onward to meet nobler life dangers. The weak in spirit may have to be on their guard against her. But, with Ellen Key, I do not believe it is moral to regulate life by considering the desire to remain undistiirbed of those that are decayed and petrified." Vitalis Norstrom, professor of philosophy, one of Sweden's most profound thinkers, and the most im- portant and worthy opponent of Ellen Key's philo- sophy, offers her the following tribute: "I have never doubted Ellen Key's sincerity of heart, her rich mind and her genius. Her personality radiates too much warmth and her pen sheds a too strong brilHancy to leave room for such doubt. Her great influence would also be inexplicable otherwise. In the de- partment of popular philosophy she holds a high place of honour. But there is one thing Ellen Key has never understood: to kneel before the celestial figure of TRUTH without any side thoughts. The logical passion of truth-seeking she does not know. The joys and woes of pure thinking were never hers. It is with the HEART she fights and with the heart she suffers. But now I am, more than formerly, inclined to believe that she has in no wise fought and suffered in vain. When purging Time has passed over her works, there will remain that which will place Ellen Key among the signs foreboding the new day, the day which she her- self had divined and dreamt, but which will be far better than her own prophetic vision."