1 84 Ellen Key vidual and of society to attain the happy life of which she dreams. " While others grow bitter towards life, she loves it, she sees, enjoys, and learns of everything everywhere (I have observed it in many places and climes, from the northern winter to Sicily's spring . . .) with a physical and spiritual buoyancy which is absolutely amazing. With such qualities one can remove mount- ains and break roads through jungles and darkness." From the many well-known Swedish writers and artists who paid Ellen Key honour we will quote certain excerpts. "... Ellen Key is the born citizen of the world. Her whole broad, full-blooded, all-embracing, living and thoroughly cultivated nature with its phenomenal recepti^dty and compassion claims the Universe for her own country, as a field of action for her boundless tenderness. She represents ' Samhalls moderlighet (a phrase invented by her, meaning vSocial Motherli- ness) in its highest potency, in its broadest and most beautiful sense." Rickard Berg. "Ellen Key is dangerous, say the good citizens. Aye, and happily so. Dangerous to those who can- not understand and follow her ideal. From the fresh fountain of her pure soul there have streamed regenerating thoughts, feelings, ideas, and visions in marvellous womanly luxuriance. And when weak mortals have become intoxicated by the draught she has offered them, good citizens have cried: 'For God's sake, stop up the spring, drain the ground, do anything that will end this—drive the woman out of the country !