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continuity. Great change on a large 

 scale is rare and is usually only slowly 

 established. 



It is on this kind of heredity that the attention 

 of science has been almost exclusively concentrated 

 in the past. As contrasted with it we have in the 

 social integration the following principles : 



XI. In the social integration tlie heredity through 

 which Power is transmitted is in the 

 cultural inheritance.* It is independent 

 of protoplasmic continuity. The trans- 

 mitting agent is the emotion of the ideal. 

 Transforming change on a universal 

 scale can be established quickly, i.e., 

 within the lifetime of a single generation. 

 The foregoing axioms carry us to new horizons 

 in Western thought and action. They form the 

 foundations of the science of Power. We have to 

 turn now to their practical applications applica- 

 tions of immeasurable significance in the future of 

 civilization. 



1 See Social Evolution, chap, ix., and Sir Edwin Ray Lankester's 

 article " Zoology," Encyclopedia tiritannica, nth ed. 



