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right but simply and solely on power and ex- 

 pediency." 1 



Yet it was the same Schopenhauer who, standing 

 at the head of the great modern pagan retrogression 

 thus indicated, visualized woman as its natural and 

 invincible antagonist. It is Schopenhauer who has 

 given us woman's charter for all time in civilization. 

 As distinct from man she is the creature to whom the 

 Race is more than the Individual, the being to whom 

 the Future is greater than the Present. Let civiliza- 

 tion remember it. 



When we turn now to the practical affairs of 

 civilization and try to focus the light of this prin- 

 ciple on the facts of the world, the illumination will 

 be found to extend to a great distance. The evidence 

 for the statement that it is woman by reason of her 

 functional, racial, and evolutionary history who is 

 the principal organ in the race of that emotion of the 

 ideal upon the function of which developing civiliza- 

 tion depends, is of great extent and significance. 



In the integrating systems of civilization Power, 

 as we have seen, is not transmitted through the 

 heredity of the individual but through the cultural 

 or social inheritance. To be able to direct or control 

 this social heredity through the emotion of the 

 ideal is to be able in a relatively brief period to 



1 Germany and the Next War. 



