234 THE SCIENCE OF POWER 



The bearing of these facts has already become 

 visible to the occupying interests in civilization. 

 Under a multitude of aspects it has become the 

 chief aim of the interests which have ruled in the 

 past to move the world now through the organiza- 

 tion of opinion and to enlist the emotion of the 

 ideal in the service of their own schemes of Power 



But this to the occupying interests of the past 

 is an infinitely difficult task. For these interests 

 cannot enlist this quality, nor maintain it, nor 

 inspire it, except at its lowest levels. It is an 

 important fact that it has never been .possible in 

 history to organize on a large scale and to steadily 

 direct over long periods of time to a clearly defined 

 end in the service of civilization the emotion of the 

 ideal at its highest potentiality. The reason has 

 been that it has not been possible hitherto to carry 

 the emotion of the ideal into action on a universal 

 scale except through the male mind. Civilization 

 has therefore never been able to enlist in its service 

 at the highest level of possible achievement this 

 capacity of mind. The chief reservoir of it as it 

 exists in the race is in the mind of woman, and it 

 has never been uncovered. This is the most signifi- 

 cant fact in the science of Power. 



It may be observed that it is this struggle between 

 the characteristic standards of mind that express 



