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organized themselves until they have filled the world 

 in the past with the stress and fury of their activities. 

 But never hitherto have the higher systems of Power 

 which rest on the other-regarding emotions organized 

 themselves throughout civilization with similar 

 intensity, determined to obtain control of the social 

 inheritance and determined to impose on the world 

 the ideals which they have the power of realizing in 

 civilization. 



In considering the principles of Power in its highest 

 forms, the significance and the reach in the era that 

 is before us of the principles of the inner mind of 

 woman become now more clearly visible. As soon 

 as we perceive the character of the conditions as- 

 sembled in the world it is evident that all systems 

 of political utilitarianism founded on self-interest, 

 such as those which Bentham, the Mills, and Herbert 

 Spencer helped to build up in Britain, and all the 

 systems of military utilitarianism in which self is 

 glorified, as in the system which modern Germany 

 sought to establish in the West, must pass in time 

 to the rubbish-heap. Their final condemnation lies in 

 the fact that, despite all appearance to the contrary, 

 they have no ultimate validity as systems of Power. As 

 soon as civilization knows its own mind and perceives 

 its own objective, with the means and instruments to 

 attain it, it will be perceived, strange as it may appear, 



