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therein represents the developing challenge to the 

 triumph in the past of the world of the self -regarding 

 emotions. But it is the qualities characteristic of 

 the mind of woman which are bound to form the 

 principal basis of Power in this significant change. 



Tolstoy's insight was true when he asserted 

 that it is the ideal of the other-regarding emotions, 

 as seen in that conception of the brotherhood 

 of man which lies behind all the winning develop- 

 ments of civilization, which will supply the dominat- 

 ing influence in Western art in the future. This 

 concept of the oneness of humanity in which 

 the future becomes greater than the present has 

 been, like the concept of God, inherent from the 

 beginning in the process .in which evolution is 

 following in history the line of maximum Power. 

 And the upward development which both concepts 

 represent is under all its forms a development 

 towards the ascendancy in the world of qualities 

 that have attained a higher development in the 

 mind of woman than they have reached in the mind 

 of the male. 



Progress in the standards of ethics in the West 

 has the same underlying significance as this develop- 

 ment which is taking place in the standards of art. 

 Power in civilization, whatever the length and 

 stress of the historical process through which the 



