Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“No human being is sole master of his fate when he has united it with another’s.”
- Source
- Love and Marriage
- Date
- 1911
- Local voice
- Authorial / signed preface voice · Ellen Key (translated authorial voice)
- English wording
- Arthur G. Chater — Translator · from Swedish
Meaning of “No human being is sole master of his…”
Key emphasizes interdependence in intimate partnership: once lives are joined, each person’s choices and development partly affect the other’s future.
Where does it come from?
Love and Marriage, represented by Project Gutenberg #57592, English edition copyright 1911, translated from Swedish by Arthur G. Chater. The sentence appears in Key’s historical discussion of fidelity, personality and reciprocal development in love; it is early-twentieth-century social philosophy, not relationship therapy.
Why the local voice matters
Love and Marriage, translated from Swedish by Arthur G. Chater. Key states this within her historical argument about fidelity, personality and reciprocal development in love.