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the capacity for sacrifice with which it is always 

 intimately allied in the minds of the young, which 

 created that other utterly unforeseen and incal- 

 culable phenomenon of the modern world, namely, 

 the new-born power of Japan. There is still no 

 Western nation outside of Germany which has so 

 clearly apprehended the significance in the future 

 of the fact that the science of the emotion of the 

 ideal is the science of power in civilization. In all 

 her recent dealings with China it may be noticed 

 that behind the more sensational events that 

 excite the attention of politicians, it is the struggle 

 of Japan for the mind of the young and for control 

 of the schools, through which the young of the rising 

 generation can be influenced under the conditions 

 desired, which occupies consistently the attention of 

 the leaders of the Japanese nation. 



That the result to be obtained in civilization by 

 the method of influencing the world through the 

 social inheritance as here described reduces to in- 

 significance those possible by any eugenic scheme 

 whatsoever founded on the inborn heredity of the 

 individual, is a conclusion which comes to the mind 

 with great strength of conviction. The prolonged 

 concentration in the past of the intellect of the West 

 on the comparatively unimportant part played by 

 the inborn heredity of the individual in human 



