178 THE SCIENCE OF POWER 



of the individual efficient in the struggle for his own 

 interests. The future lies in the social integration. 

 The social integration rests on organization. And 

 in this organization the seat of efficiency and the 

 centre of all power in the future is in that cultural 

 heredity which civilization imposes on the individual 

 through the emotion of the ideal. There is practi- 

 cally nothing which cannot be accomplished through 

 the emotion of the ideal in civilization. There is 

 absolutely no aim, which civilization chooses to set 

 before itself, which it is not possible for civilization 

 to achieve, even to the sweeping away of this exist- 

 ing world and the creation of a new world in a brief 

 space of time. The great question of the age, the 

 question to which all others are subordinate is : 

 Where are we to look in the new order for the psychic 

 centre of this cultural heredity of civilization ? 



