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lives, and which may even at times be beyond their 

 understanding. 



In this deeply organized type of society efficiency 

 projected thus into the future always of necessity 

 implies and includes efficiency in the present. A 

 society which is capable of consistently subordinating 

 the present to the future has within it the power of 

 realizing practically any aim which it may set 

 before itself in civilization. The social mind 

 directed forward with great strength and unity 

 over long stretches of time to an ideal end held in 

 view is a force absolutely irresistible. The political 

 systems of Power organized in this way will win out 

 over all others in the struggle of the world in the 

 future. 



The cause which makes these higher systems of 

 Power possible has been designated in these chapters 

 the emotion of the ideal. Many years ago William 

 James graphically described in the first edition of 

 his Textbook of Psychology the manner in which this 

 cause of illimitable Power mainly represented in 

 the mind of woman works in the individual. He 

 did not call the cause the emotion of the ideal. 

 He did not deal with its transmission through the 

 social heredity, or with its wide effects as related 

 to Power as I have discussed these matters here. 

 But within the limits that confine it, James's descrip- 



