By Benjamin Kidd 



THE SCIENCE OF 

 POWER 



Ninth Edition. Grown 8vo. 75. 6d. net. 



A startling and dramatic book. The world- wide 

 economic, political, and intellectual developments pre- 

 ceding the present war are reviewed. The chaotic 

 phenomena of to-day yield their meaning only in relation 

 to the integration of systems of power in the world. 

 Power is the only standard of validity. It has nothing 

 whatever essentially to do with Force. The laws of 

 Power are set forth. The conditions which must arrive 

 in the world as determined by the inevitable natural 

 movement towards maximum power in social evolution 

 are laid down in a way likely to affect the imagination, 

 and to exercise an unusual influence in affairs. The 

 section of society which Mr. Kidd sees as likely to exercise 

 a controlling influence in the world of to-morrow, owing 

 to its inherent relationship to maximum power, is the 

 surprise of the book. 



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