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evolution in the development of those characteristic 

 qualities upon which Power now rests in the social 

 integration. Nearly all the past discussions about 

 woman may be perceived at a glance to be occupied 

 with aspects of the case which have no important 

 relation to the fundamental issue with which we 

 are about to become involved in civilization. Man 

 has been engaged in discussing woman in the past 

 from the point of view of woman's case with man 

 or of man's case with woman. But civilization is 

 not ultimately concerned in a fundamental way 

 with either of those issues. The central problem 

 is the relation of woman, not to man, but to the 

 needs of society. 



In this matter developing civilization is being 

 driven by causes which are inherent in a direction 

 which is inevitable. Evolution will follow the line 

 of maximum Power. It is this question of Power 

 which will ultimately control everything. And the 

 significant fact towards which we have to turn is 

 that the qualities through which maximum Power 

 must express itself in the long sequences of the 

 social integration, the qualities, that is to say, for 

 which civilization cries aloud now with the living 

 hunger of a type in evolution, are precisely those 

 which are most characteristically represented in the 

 mind of woman. They are the qualities by which 



