_By Ellen Key_ The Century of the Child The Education of the Child Love and Marriage The Woman Movement The Woman Movement By Ellen Key Author of “The Century of the Child,” “Love and Marriage,” etc. Translated by Mamah Bouton Borthwick, A.M. With an Introduction by Havelock Ellis G. P. Putnam’s Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press 1912 COPYRIGHT, 1912 BY G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS The Knickerbocker Press, New York Es gibt kein Vergangenes das man zurücksehnen dürfte; es gibt nur ein ewig Neues, das sich aus den erweiterten Elementen des Vergangenen gestaltet, und die echte Sehnsucht muss stets productiv sein, ein neues, besseres Erschaffen.—GOETHE. “_There is no past that we need long to return to, there is only the eternally new which is formed out of enlarged elements of the past; and our genuine longing must always be productive, for a new and better creation._” PREFACE The literature upon the right and the worth of woman, beginning as early as the 15th century, has in recent times increased so enormously that a complete collection would require a whole library building. In these writings are represented all classes, from tables of statistics to comic papers. Not only both sexes but almost all stages of life have contributed to it. By immersing oneself in this literature, especially in its belletristic and polemic portions, one could find rich material for the illumination of that sphere to which the publisher limited my work: the indication of the new spiritual conditions, transformations, and reciprocal results which the woman movement has effected. Historic, scientific, political, economic, juridical, sociological, and theological points of view must, therefore, be practically set aside. But even for my task, limited to the psychological sphere, time, strength, and inclination are wanting to bury myself in this literature. I must, therefore, confine myself to giving chiefly my own observations.