CHAPTER VIII 



WOMAN IS THE PSYCHIC CENTRE OF 

 POWER IN THE SOCIAL INTEGRATION 



FOR long throughout the past human energies 

 have been cramped and limited on every 

 side through the concentration of the Western 

 intellect on the causes which have governed the 

 individual integration as described in the preceding 

 chapter. The mind and will of civilization have 

 been overwhelmingly absorbed in the study of the 

 facts which have made for the efficiency of Power 

 in the struggles of this era. This is a passing phase 

 of the world. The principles of Power in the future 

 all lie in the social integration. And in the social 

 integration the fact of first significance is that 

 Power centres in emotion. The social integration 

 is related in all its phases to that supreme capacity 

 in the collective mind which senses and directs 

 Power, namely, the emotion of the ideal. 



One of the strangest facts of our time is this. 

 The West knows practically nothing of the science 

 of emotion. It knows scarcely anything, that is to 



