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natural to anabolic centres. Discipline is arti- 

 ficial action because of this transference of 

 the motives of action from one class of cen- 

 tres to another. A man is disciplined by the 

 development of his body where the katabolic 

 tendencies are dominant. A woman, however, 

 is disciplined by the development of her mind, 

 thereby displacing the emotional and erratic 

 motives which move uncultivated women. 

 Discipline differs from education in that the 

 discipline of men comes best from men and 

 that of women from women. These processes 

 unite in bringing the race up to its maxi- 

 mum powers: the awakening of strong natu- 

 ral characters comes under normal conditions 

 by a natural process; education strengthens 

 weak characters and brings all to an equality 

 in the standard which is natural in the strong, 

 and it should be conducted by the strong for 

 the benefit of the weak ; supplementing these 

 two processes should come a discipline which 

 transfers all action to the more katabolic side 

 of each person. Effective action must be 

 quick and decisive, and this it cannot be except 

 when the centres most easily disturbed are 



