198 THE SCIENCE OF POWER 



it has simply reached the highest expression of 

 Power. 



These systems of Power in the social integration 

 do not rest on reason. They appeal to no facts 

 the facts have not arrived. They answer nothing, 

 to argument. They are Power itself. They rest on 

 emotion. And through the emotion of the ideal, 

 man therein has hitched himself to omnipotence. 



Now if we turn from the fighting male of the race 

 to the other half of the world which is represented 

 in woman, the effect on the mind of these principles 

 is very striking as we begin to perceive their reach. 

 At the back of human consciousness, as the literatures 

 of nearly all peoples bear witness, there has always 

 lurked a conception of woman's mind as being; 

 in circumstances which men have never allowed 

 themselves freely to imagine, a power of incalcul- 

 able magnitude. Save in the expressions of it, 

 which arise directly out of its relations to the 

 opposite sex, woman's mind at the present time, even 

 in the highest systems of human culture, remains 

 the greatest mystery of the race. 



Throughout the whole span of the human era, the 

 development of the mind of woman has represented 

 one fact of absolutely supreme significance, namely, 

 that there has been expressed in it the struggle of 

 the interests of the future against the ascendency 



