Appendix 187 "How glorious it would be to have lived a long life and still love humanity as tenderly as does Ellen Key!"—Hanna Pauli. "... The words that give the key to Ellen Key's personality are: idealism and love for humanity. These traits are so strong in her that no bitter ex- perience has been able to disturb or diminish them. She looks away from the faults and weaknesses of the individual, she appreciates the best in each person- ality, she looks at one as one might have been, or may become if the noblest tendencies under favourable cir- cumstances are allowed highest development. To understand, to beautify, and to admire is as natural for Ellen Key as to breathe. Her overestimation of human nature, her bright faith in its swift perfect- ibiHty, her conviction that what she calls the 'com- mon virtues,' such as integrity, trustworthiness, conscientiousness, are just as natural to the majority as they are to her, form the basis of her mistakes and of others' misunderstanding of her actual meaning." Anna Whitlock. " A woman with so marvellous a sensitiveness to all that is young and growing and spring-like cannot but be a bright power in her land. Fighting and inspiring others to fight, notwithstanding all the gentleness of her being, she stands in our culture as a dreamer in armour." Anders Osterling.