THE SCIENCE OF POWER.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16310, 6 September 1918, Page 9

THE SCIENCE OF POWER.

TO THE EDITOR OF "THE P8835." Sir,—'Don't you like the keynote to Benjamin Kidd's b3ok, viz. ± That tho reign of dominion and power is passing away from tho wale mind, and that

the clivinity that is going to rough liew our ends in tho future is the feminine mind? I don't know -whether it was this prospect, or whether I in tunc with yourself when you_ were writing your leading article, "Nietzsche or Christ?" but I have spent a sleepless.night reading Kidd nnd wrestling with the extraordinary situations ho uncovers. It seems as if Lytton's book, "The Coming Race," wherein be sketched us men, tame aud amenable, controlled by ! the "Vril" power residing in the ! feminine thumb, was not so fanciful | after all. Now, a man like Kidd, jisserts that the world could be revolutionised in two generations if wo meddling, muddling fighting men would take a back seat. A "Martian" surveying our turmoil might well, be excused if he, remarked that it would be a good thing if the reign of the fighting male be ended at oncc, seeing the mess we have made of things by misconstruing Darwinism.. By the way. Mr Kidd never once mentions Alfred Russell Wallace, -who had a truer spiritual conception of the meaning of evolution than what Darwin had. I hope. Sir, you will own up if you had anything to do with my sleepless night. It would be a good bit of S.P.R. evidence.—Yours, etc., PETER TROLOVE. September 4th.