CHAPTER V 



THE EMOTION OF THE IDEAL IS THE 

 SUPREME PRINCIPLE OF EFFICIENCY 

 IN THE COLLECTIVE STRUGGLE OF 

 THE WORLD 



TO get outside the effects of the obsessions of 

 the past, and to be able to look the world 

 straight in the face as it exists, is to have the 

 conviction take possession of the mind with over- 

 whelming force that the civilization of the West is 

 as yet scarcely more than glorified savagery. What 

 has happened in it is that those who have obtained 

 power have endeavoured in the main to found all 

 Western institutions on the heredity of the indi- 

 vidual efficient in the struggle for his own interests. 

 Taking this inborn heredity coming straight down 

 from the time when the universal effort was for A 

 to kill B before B was able to kill A, those who 

 have prevailed thereby have organized it into what 

 is called civilization. The result has been in- 

 evitable. In our international relations, to use the 

 Hon. George Peel's memorable phrase, Western 



