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life of the individual, i.e., it is in the 

 present. 



The highest form of Power in the individua 

 integration is that which Darwin described, namely, 

 the highest survival efficiency of those units which 

 are successful in the struggle for their own lives and 

 interests. But 



VII. In the Social Integration evolution follows 

 the line of maximum Power through the 

 entire subordination of the lives and welfare 

 of the individual units to a survival effi- 

 ciency in the social integration which is 

 Projected beyond that of the lives and wel- 

 fare or even the consciousness of the existing 

 units. The centre of gravity in the process 

 is beyond the individual, i.e., it is in the 

 future. 



The highest form of Power in the social integration 

 is that which produces the highest efficiency in 

 securing this type of subordination. I have else- 

 where denned this as Projected Efficiency* 



As we scrutinize closely this statement of the 

 difference between the principles of Power in the 

 individual integration and in the social integration, 

 we have unveiled before us the cause of all the funda- 

 mental and deep-seated confusion and conflict in the 



1 Principles of Western Civilisation, chap. ii. 



