200 THE SCIENCE OF POWER 



transmitted is in the individual. The centre of 

 gravity in Power is, therefore, in the present. The 

 line of maximum Power which evolution is following 

 is the individual efficient in the struggle for his own 

 interest the efficient individual, that is to say, 

 whom Nietzsche described to us as acknowledging 

 no authority but his- own will and no morality but 

 his own interests. Everything in this individual 

 has been controlled and is still controlled by interests 

 centred in the present, and by the necessity, actual 

 or implicit, in all his institutions for A to be able to 

 kill B before B is able to kill A. 



In the social integration the clue to Power is quite 

 different. The heredity through which Power is 

 transmitted is not in the individual. It is the 

 social or cultural inheritance. Evolution continues 

 to follow the line of maximum Power, but it is the 

 characteristic principle of the social integration 

 that immensely greater Power centres in those 

 systems which while remaining efficient in the 

 present at the same time subject the present to the 

 future. The centre of gravity of Power in the social 

 integration is therefore always in the future. The 

 control of the long organized sequences of cause 

 and effect through which evolution thus follows 

 the line of Power in the social integration can be 

 only attained in one way by emotion directing 



