8 THE SCIENCE OF POWER 



meaning of hundreds of generations of successful 

 fighting. 



The consequences are felt to-day throughout 

 every fibre of our civilization. As race after race 

 of the peoples of the earth, as class after class, and 

 layer after layer of their societies have been gradually 

 brought into the struggle under the emancipating 

 influence described, there has resulted a conflict 

 of forces never before known. The problems there- 

 of have become in every field of activity in the 

 West the centres of movements molten with human 

 passion. There has never been anything like the 

 daily sequence of events which is spread before us 

 in the record of civilization during the past half- 

 century. It is a record of a war continuous and 

 intense under every phase of human activity. 

 In the programmes of parties, in the relations of 

 nations, in business, in labour politics, in art, in 

 literature, in the whole realm of economic activ- 

 ity, it is war in progress under every conceivable 

 aspect. 



But this cannot be the meaning of the West. 

 Through it all there runs a sense of new eras, 

 of new values, of emerging types, of widen- 

 ing horizons, of more spacious ideals of human 

 brotherhood seen through the social emotion. 

 But it is a world of revolution, of sinking temples, 



