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by the crowd of writers, and later by many men 

 of action, who have followed Schopenhauer and 

 Nietzsche, in imagining the winning principles of 

 Power in the Individual Integration to be the 

 winning principles of Power in the Social Integration, 

 are in reality a striking tribute to the mind of 

 woman. For what has to be recognized therein is 



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that the fear of woman's mental influence is ex- 

 hibited as a kind of overwhelming obsession of the 

 male intellect. Even the more reasoned opposition 

 to the claims of the sex, often encountered in the 

 current world in persons of the highest ideals, is to 

 be taken as testimony to the underlying perception 

 of the reach of woman's powers. For in the case of 

 most persons of this class, especially those of the 

 strongest convictions and sincerity, it is the instinct 

 of the enormous potential influence of woman's 

 mind in the coming order of civilization which drives 

 them to oppose with all their might attempts to 

 employ that influence in what they conceive to be 

 a wrong and misguided manner. 



In dealing with the mind of woman in the future 

 of civilization the fundamental fact that must ever 

 be kept clearly in view is the relationship of woman 

 to Power. Scarcely any of the writers of social 

 science textbooks have yet grasped the full signi- 

 ficance of this relationship, and of the fact that the 



