194 THE SCIENCE OF POWER 



power of emotion. Under our prevailing standards 

 in the West we continually think of the control of 

 emotion as if it indicated absence of emotion. 

 So entirely contrary to fact is this misconception 

 that it may be taken as a maxim of civilization that 

 other things being equal, the higher the capacity 

 of any individual or of any people, the higher the 

 capacity for emotion. 



It is emotion only which can in its collective appli- 

 cations direct the general mind in the long sequences 

 through which Power must express itself in the 

 social integration. It is through the emotion of 

 the ideal, and through this cause alone, that the 

 collective will can be concentrated and directed 

 over long periods of time to particular ends. It 

 is through emotion only that the present can be 

 subordinated to the future and the organized will 

 of civilization transmitted from one generation 

 to the next through the young. It is through the 

 emotion of the ideal that any collective aim whatso- 

 ever that the organized imagination of a people 

 may set before itself in civilization becomes possible 

 of achievement, and this in an incredibly brief 

 interval of time. 



Where are we to look for the principal source 

 and reservoir in the future of this supreme capacity ? 

 It will be the seat of all Power. It will be the 



