i86 Ellen Key and if courage and faith could help; you would have accomplished all. But they do not suffice for every- thing. The human soil is heavy to prepare, the fire must bum, and the iron plough long yet before spring will come, and even then it can hardly be yours. But for yourself there is eternal spring. That is much, that is great! And as nothing great is in vain, we bow gladly to you not only in respect, but in grati- tude.'" Per Hallstrom. "Ellen Key's ideals are not mine. But I love her personality, and few are the persons in whose presence I have felt such a life-giving harmony in all existence, and very rare are those who with such loving under- standing and compassionate mind can receive all that one gives out, as Ellen Key does. The broadly and tenderly human in her nature seems to me the greatest and most significant of her characteristics." Helena Nyblom. "... Ellen Key is an artist nature, . . . not only in creating artistic expressions, but in a far deeper sense. She is one who divines and sees as a living reality that which lies beyond the horizon, and she has the power to make this a reality also for others who yearn. And she has the artist's ecstasy for life. She has travelled her road of life with her Master Life's genius at her side, and meekly and exaltedly listened to his words. Well may she say with the words of the apostle: 'Was not my heart burning in me when he spoke to me on the way?' Life has given her joy and woe, hot battles and great peace." Odal Ottelin.