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ultimate cause of dominant efficiency in the coming 

 struggle of the world. 



The answer to this question is the most striking 

 which it has ever been the lot of a writer to give. 

 There can be no doubt as to what the reply must 

 be. It is not in the fighting Male of the race : it is 

 in Woman that we have the future centre of Power in 

 civilization. This, strange and paradoxical as it 

 may appear, is the first lesson in Power which 

 emerges in history from the great world war of 

 civilization in the second decade of the twentieth 

 century. 



If we look at the history of the righting male of 

 the race in the vast struggle for Power which formed 

 the past history of the world, the significance of 

 certain facts begins to stand out with great dis- 

 tinctness before the mind. The existing world in 

 every phase of its life has been the culminating stage 

 of the prolonged drama of individual efficiency. 

 It is the flowering stage in every institution of the 

 qualities which have made the individuals who are 

 supremely efficient in the struggle for their own 

 interests the centres of all systems of Power and 

 the masters of the world. It represents the age 

 when interests have been short-circuited into the 

 hands of those who have power to hold them by 

 force, and when the instant need of individuals and 



