40 THE SCIENCE OF POWER 



tion. It is an age of elementals. In the midst of 

 the rising to the surface again in civilization, on a 

 scale approaching the universal, of aspects of 

 savagery belonging to epochs of the past, we are 

 watching the assembling in the world of the govern- 

 ing forces of new eras of history. 



Have the interpreters of Darwinism in the past 

 missed the great secret of the humanity of the 

 world ? It is becoming evident that all the truth 

 there is in Darwin's great conception may be summed 

 up in a single word integration. For long we have 

 wasted our breath in talk about the survival of the 

 fittest and in discussions as to which the fittest 

 may be. But the fittest in life is simply the most 

 advanced integration. Darwinism dealt with the 

 individual and with the individual mostly before 

 the advent of mind. The law of the integration 

 of the individual has been the law of the supremacy 

 and the omnipotence of brute force. But other and 

 higher integrations are now on foot in the world 

 which rest on mind and spirit. It is the laws and 

 the meanings of these integrations which are carrying 

 the world into new horizons. And in the upbuilding 

 of the civilization founded on this wider knowledge 

 it is the stones which the builders of the past have 

 rejected which are about to become the master 

 stones of the edifice. 



