212 THE SCIENCE OF POWER 



alter or profoundly modify the world or any of its 

 existing institutions. It is to obtain control ovei 

 all the reservoirs of Power in civilization. Th< 

 relationship of woman to the cultural heredity o 

 the world through the emotion of the ideal is there- 

 fore the first fact which meets us on the thresholc 

 of the science of Power. 



The emotion of the ideal is an inseparable anc 

 the most essential part of that rapacity in the 

 human mind which senses Power. Woman from her 

 history in the past in subjection to force has doubt 

 less from an early period possessed this capacity ir 

 a high degree. It is peculiar to her now that undei 

 more complete conditions of civilization she pos 

 sesses, in a far higher state of development than il 

 has reached in man, the sense which instinctively 

 recognizes the sequences through which Power is 

 transmitted in the social integration. Power is 

 the social integration, as Spencer long ago pointed 

 out, resides in those causes which produce the long 

 sequences of effect as contrasted with the motives 

 and impulses which in savagery produce the less 

 important, rapid and short-range effects. It is 

 not in the nature of things that the male who has 

 been from the beginning the doer, the maker, the 

 builder, the fighter, the instrument of force, the 

 attendant on all the instant need of things in the 



