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present, should be the equal of woman in this 

 quality of subordinating the present to the future 

 by the emotion of the ideal. 



It is a circumstance which has to be noted that 

 amongst the advanced fighting races this fact is 

 nearly always instinctively recognized by men. 

 Almost every male of the Western races, as soon as 

 he becomes involved in the activities of Power 

 which are characteristic of the social integration, 

 has the same instinct. When he has need of the 

 emotion of the ideal to carry him beyond the thick 

 of his present difficulties, or beyond the outlook of 

 his environment, or into these higher regions of 

 leadership which require sacrifice prolonged beyond 

 all interests of the present, he turns instinctively, 

 not to another male of his kind, but to woman for 

 support and instinctive understanding. 



Men tend to hide this characteristic from their 

 fellows in a world in which the standards of the 

 individual integration still survive in great strength. 

 But it is developed to the highest and completest 

 extent in the leading and strongest minds. One 

 has to turn to such records as Moltke's love letters 

 and his letters to his wife to see to what an extent 

 minds which in the popular imagination have 

 represented the personification of power power 

 precise, calculating, methodical, mathematical 



