50 THE SCIENCE OF POWER 



individual or the efficient group or the efficient 

 State. But the story of evolution above savagery 

 is nothing else than the story of the gradual rise 

 to supremacy in the world of those psychic forces 

 organized in civilization which are subduing indi- 

 viduals or aggregations of individuals efficient in then- 

 own interests to those universal principles which are 

 making for the limitless efficiency of civilization. 



It happens through all this that there has never 

 been since civilization began any reconciliation 

 between the morality of the individual efficient 

 for himself and the morality of evolving civiliza- 

 tion. There never will be any such reconciliation 

 to the end of time. The two things are inherently 

 incompatible. The meaning which underlies all 

 forms of progress in advanced civilization is that it 

 represents the great spiritual integration of mind 

 which has raised the conception of Right to the 

 plane of the Universal by projecting the sense of 

 human responsibility outside all theories of limited 

 interests whatsoever which rest merely on force. 

 It has made Right independent of and superior 

 to all interests of the individual, the group or the 

 State resting on the successful application of Force, 

 on whatever claim or mission they may be based, 

 on whatever scale they may be represented, by 

 whatever force they may be backed. 



