182 THE SCIENCE OF POWER 



has never been permitted to present itself in the 

 full light of day to the minds of the combatants, 

 namely, that Truth is inseparably related to Power. 

 Men did not consciously allow themselves to con- 

 sider this most basal of facts that in the science 

 of the developing world, Power is the clue not 

 only to human action but to all the principles of 

 knowledge. 



The academic system of ideas and arguments 

 about the nature of Truth which the Western mind 

 had reared for centuries was in reality broken to 

 pieces by bringing into sight the actuality which 

 lay behind a statement that formed the heading 

 of one of the chapters of Social Evolution. This 

 statement was to the effect that in the social in- 

 tegration there is no rational sanction for the con- 

 ditions of progress. It was the assertion of the 

 essential relationship of Truth to Power, and to 

 Power only, which was expressed in this simple 

 form of words, that constituted the claim to at- 

 tention. The perception of that relationship sent 

 something like a thrill of re-creation through the 

 dry bones of the philosophies of the West. In 

 the half-articulate period which followed the 

 publication of Social Evolttiion, the leaders of the 

 new movement in Western thought which took the 

 name of Pragmatism, feeling the connexion between 



