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every lifetime in the will of the individual, when he 

 is made to pass irrevocably into another world by 

 the influence on him of the internal standards set 

 up in his mind through the cultural inheritance, is a 

 miracle which under proper conditions is bound to 

 be wrought equally in the collective will. 



This direction of the collective will through the 

 cultural inheritance to definite ends over long 

 stretches of time has become the most urgent need 

 of civilization. But the fact of the age which goes 

 deeper than any other is that the male mind of the race, 

 as the result of the conditions out of which it has come, 

 is by itself incapable of rendering this service to 

 civilization. It is in the mind of woman that the 

 winning peoples of the world will find the psychic 

 centre of Power in the future. 



The immense importance of the function of the 

 cultural heredity of civilization imposed on the 

 mind of the young of each generation under the 

 influence of the emotion of the ideal was described 

 in Chapter V. It is the most pregnant fact in the 

 history of Power as written in the struggles of 

 modern peoples. Any end towards which the will of 

 civilization is directed in this manner has become 

 possible of attainment. Any existing institution 

 of the world can be altered or transformed in a 

 brief period. 



