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clue to all events and to all principles in the future 

 is that Power in the highest form of integration 

 will win. 



Now the highest form of Power in the social 

 integration is that in which society is rendered 

 organic to the highest possible degree. Almost the 

 only object to which society as a whole has been 

 collectively organized in the past has been the 

 object of successful war directed to the smashing 

 and conquest of other peoples or to resistance 

 against such an attempt. There has been no 

 example hitherto in the world of Power in its 

 highest and supreme type, that is to say, in a 

 society in which mind has been organized and 

 steadily directed through all the forms and 

 functions of civilization over an indefinite number 

 of generations towards the attainment of an ideal 

 conceived to embrace the highest and the whole 

 meaning of human effort. It is this type of 

 society which is inevitable in the future of the 

 world ; for in the struggle for survival it will 

 exceed in Power all other types. But to organize 

 Power in this supreme type is possible in society in 

 one way only. The existing individuals must be 

 rendered capable of subordinating their minds, 

 their lives, and all the interests within the span 

 of their lives, to an ideal which is beyond their 

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