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standards of the modern West. Almost the entire 

 effort of the Western mind to apply Darwinism to the 

 collective standards of the world has been an effort to 

 apply to the affairs of civilization the principles of 

 Power in the individual integration conceiving them to 

 be the principles of Power in the social integration. It 

 is evident that the Western mind therein is up against 

 an impossible task. For Power as expressed through 

 the forms of the social integration is immeasurably 

 greater than Power expressed through the forms of 

 the individual integration of which Darwin gave us 

 the laws. The principles upon which Power rests 

 in the social integration will therefore be the winning 

 principles in the world. 



The ascendant and winning quality in the era ot 

 the individual integration has been Reason. It may 

 be defined as follows : 



VIII. Reason is the highest form of the sum of 

 the Self-Regarding emotions. It is the 

 principal expression of that capacity in 

 mind by which the individual senses the 

 sequences through which Power is related 

 to Force. It is the chief human organ o> 

 the science of Force. 



Even where reason carries us into the highest 

 regions of practical science, or of thought, or of 

 speculation, its achievements all remain applications 



