230 THE SCIENCE OF POWER 



that these systems have not a chance in the long run 

 in the stern struggle of the world. They will all go 

 down in the end before the long-range, long-sequence, 

 integrating systems of Power of which the meaning 

 transcends self and all the interests of self, of which 

 the centre of gravity is always in the future and of 

 which the history in all the stages constitutes that 

 vast, tragic, ennobling, world-building drama of sub- 

 ordination and duty resting on sacrifice. These are 

 the systems organized in the highest degree and there- 

 fore powerful in the highest degree, towards which 

 life by the laws inherent in it must evolve in the 

 social integration. 



To the evolutionist who understands his subject 

 and who has once firmly grasped in all its bearings 

 the leading fact that the science of evolution is the 

 science of Power, the conclusion suggested in these 

 chapters begins here to present itself with great 

 strength as a conviction. He sees clearly that the 

 part which he has played in the past will not remain 

 to the fighting male. It is the mind of woman which 

 is destined to take the lead in the future of civiliza- 

 tion as the principal instrument of Power. 



It will be recognized in time as a fact beyond dis- 

 pute that it is in the mind of woman that there is 

 reached the completest expression of the sum of the 

 other- regarding emotions which has been defined 



