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in the substitution of higher standards for lower; 

 and it is the distinctive quality of this inner tribunal 

 that it sets up the highest standard of all that of 

 Universal Mind. "Most men," he concludes, 

 " either continually or occasionally carry a reference 

 to it in their breast. The humblest outcast on this 

 earth can feel himself to be real and valid by means 

 of this higher recognition." 



It is in making the standards of this other-regard- 

 ing self the basis of the social inheritance, and in 

 the organization and transmission of this inheritance 

 under the influence of the emotion of the ideal, that 

 there lies the road to the attainment of any object 

 that a people may set before itself. Once the influ- 

 ence of the ideal is imposed upon the individual by 

 social heredity, as described in Chapter V, he can 

 never escape from it. It is this creation of the ideal, 

 and the organization of the minds upon which it is 

 imposed into the collective will, that constitute the 

 first objective in the science of Power in the future 

 of the world. 



From tune immemorial the interests in which 

 Power has expressed itself through the self -regarding 

 emotions have imposed their will on the world. The 

 systems of Power, acknowledging no law and no 

 morality but their own advantage, to which the 

 interests resting on self have given rise, have 



