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by prevailing standards to be associated with 

 inferiority in the midst of the types then dominant. 

 When the changing conditions of the world offered 

 the opportunity, the qualities thus developed were 

 ready to assume the function suitable to the new 

 era which made the type of life possessing them a 

 dominant one in evolution. 



In the social integration the governing principle 

 slowly rising into sight in the modern struggle of 

 the world is that civilization rests on the social 

 emotion. The principal instrument of the social 

 emotion is the mind of woman. Power in the 

 future of civilization is the science of the organiza- 

 tion in society of the emotion of the ideal. The 

 people who first grasp this tremendous lesson in all 

 its practical bearings will have the world at their 

 feet. 



This is the lesson which the Emperor William II 

 sought through the elementary school-teachers of 

 Prussia to interpret to civilization in the world- 

 compelling history of modern Germany. The 

 lesson remains in all its mind-subduing significance, 

 despite the calamitous misdirection, despite the 

 tremendous misinterpretation. 



I carry to the end of my life the memory of a 

 certain summer afternoon in the year 1908. It 

 was my place to deliver to the University of Oxford 



