136 THE SCIENCE OF POWER 



that resounds through the history of modern 

 Germany. Even as applied therein to the realiza- 

 tion of the lowest and coarsest aims of war the 

 effect in organized form is such as to support fully 

 the description used by the American writer already 

 quoted of " almost superhuman." If the national 

 ideals which were placed in the foreground had not 

 been atavistic and had been in line with the meaning 

 of evolving civilization it is not too much to say 

 that there is nothing which modern Germany could 

 not have accomplished in the world by the means 

 that were employed. 



The conclusion upon which the mind must be 

 concentrated is that it is inevitable that civilization 

 will look in future to the emotion of the ideal 

 employed under such conditions for the accomplish- 

 ment of its aims. The science of the function of 

 the emotion of the ideal in the social integration 

 that is proceeding is nothing more and is nothing 

 less than the science of efficiency and therefore the 

 science of all winning causes in civilization. The 

 immeasurable futility of any other kind of know- 

 ledge appealing to us as the science of efficiency 

 in civilization will gradually be borne in with 

 conviction on the mind of the world. Once we 

 have grasped the elemental difference between the 

 cause of efficiency in the individual integration 



