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herself, and she dreamt of finding the man who,
in this sense, might become her second self.
The thought that she would never meet this
man in Sweden, made her feel a certain
discontent with this country, to which she had come
with such bright hopes and anticipations.
Mathematician as she was, the aim and end of
life could not be found in abstract science by a
character like hers, which was so passionately
personal in all its tendencies.
When she argued about these ideas with
Mittag Leffler, he used to call them an outcome
of feminine weakness, and to say that a genius
was never to such an extent dependent on
others. However, she insisted and quoted many
men who had found their highest aspirations in
their love for one woman. It is true, most of
these men were poets, and it was rather difficult
to find examples among men of science; yet,
Sonia was never at a loss for proofs; where
facts were wanting her imagination would come
to the rescue, and she certainly showed how the
sense of solitude had been the greatest trial to
all deep natures, and how man, whose highest
dream of happiness was to live in fullest intimate
harmony with another being, always in his
innermost self was doomed to solitude.
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