252 THE SCIENCE OF POWER 



many throughout this chapter is this : Can it be in 

 keeping with the order of the evolutionary process 

 that the mind of woman, which has hitherto occupied 

 a position of inferiority, should thus become in a 

 relatively brief period the principal instrument of 

 Power in the world ? 



It may be laid down as a rule in the history of 

 evolution that all the great developments which 

 have carried life into new horizons have arisen 

 in the same way. They were based on qualities 

 previously developed in obscurity and in conditions 

 of apparent inferiority. But as soon as the con- 

 ditions of the new era were assembled in the world, 

 the qualities which had hitherto appeared inferior 

 were ready to assume the function which was to 

 carry the world into an entirely new era of 

 progress. 



Thus it was that the land forms of life, now the 

 dominant types in the world, were developed from 

 forms which, though possessing in embryo the 

 qualities required in the new era, would have ap- 

 peared to an observer as quite inferior types in the 

 midst of those then dominant in the ocean. Similarly 

 among the land types, in the long era of the domin- 

 ance of the fighting types of life possessing huge 

 bodies or clothed in defensive armour, there were de- 

 veloped, amongst forms appearing quite subordinate 



