184 THE SCIENCE OF POWER 



to establish the conviction that it is the final 

 answer. 



I. Truth is the Science of Power. 



To this axiom may be added a second equally 

 fundamental : 



II. Evolution in all the phenomena of Life follows 



the line of maximum Power. 



When Christ, claiming to be the exponent s of 

 Truth, stood before Pilate's judgment seat, appar- 

 ently a man utterly beaten and defeated, the 

 cultured Roman asked him the question, " What is 

 Truth ? " Christ, it is recorded, " answered him 

 nothing," so that Pilate marvelled. The position 

 was complete. Nothing could be added to it. 

 For the true answer was utterly beyond Pilate's 

 comprehension. The centre of the greatest Power 

 system which has arisen in history stood before 

 him and he knew it not. For Pilate did not and 

 could not understand the science of Power as it 

 had passed over from the individual to the social 

 integration. 



There have been three stages in the definition of 

 the science of Power in the West. In the first 

 stage of it Newton in the Principia set forth the 

 laws of the material universe in terms of Force. In 

 the second stage Darwin defined the laws of the 

 individual integration in life in terms of Power. 



