WOMAN THE PSYCHIC CENTRE 201 



action through the cultural inheritance over long 

 periods of time to ideals beyond the lives and 

 interests of the existing individuals. It is woman 

 who, by the necessities of her being, has carried within 

 her nature from the beginning in its highest potenti- 

 alities the ruling principle of this new era of Power. 



By her history in evolution, by her function in 

 relation to man, by her position in relation to the 

 future generation, woman has ever been the creature 

 of fruition in the future as contrasted with man. 

 The driving principle of woman's nature at all its 

 highest levels has ever been by pure physiological 

 necessity the subjugation of the present with all its 

 imperious demands to a meaning beyond herself 

 and beyond all visible interests in the present. 

 By the necessities of evolution every strand of 

 woman's deeper being has vibrated to this meaning 

 for untold ages. The fighting male is through the 

 nature of his history the creature of those short- 

 range animal emotions which are becoming of less 

 importance in advancing civilization. Woman, on 

 the contrary, through her history has ever been the 

 creature of the long-range emotions through which 

 the instant needs of the present are subordinated 

 to the meaning implicit in the long sequences of 

 cause and effect through which maximum Power 

 expresses itself in the social integration. 



