202 THE SCIENCE OF POWER 



Nothing is more surprising to numbers of women 

 who have long worked in public matters in con- 

 junction with men, and also to numbers of men who 

 have had experience of a similar kind in working 

 with women, than the popular impression that 

 woman represents the sex which is liable to be 

 diverted from distant ends by passing emotions, 

 while men are held to be relatively uninfluenced by 

 emotion. Wide experience almost invariably brings 

 home to the mind that this is the opposite of the 

 truth. In men all the more powerful emotions are 

 short-range emotions. They are all, moreover, the 

 emotions intimately related to the overpowering 

 heredity of the fight. In civilization the necessity 

 for outwardly controlling emotions of this class is 

 constant and imperative. Men throughout their 

 lives are consequently in constant conflict with 

 their emotions, suppressing them, hiding them, 

 ashamed of them. The continual object of the 

 male sex in civilization is to appear unemotional, 

 with the result that this pose has become one of the 

 outward marks of culture amongst civilized men. 



But this is only on the surface. The emotions 

 of the male exist beneath in overwhelming strength. 

 Women always by a true and deep-seated instinct 

 despise what they perceive to be the short-range 

 emotions in men in public affairs. Even in the 



