ABSTRACT
The distinction between Dominations and Powers being moral, we may expect to find it present in the heart of the individual; indeed its source and seat cannot be other than the heart. If vital impulse had not become conscious in the passions (and conscious especially by feeling them thwarted) the models for a Domination and for a Power would never have appeared. We might have been moving mechanically under pressure from our fellows, like grains in a quicksand or snow-flakes in an avalanche; and we should never have minded it, unless some vital impulse within the single flake or the single grain had resisted that pressure or strained to push even harder and move even faster. So children and rustics endure political revolutions without knowing what the word means, or caring to know, if their daily routine is not disturbed; so many things of no consequence are talked about by the bigwigs! Yet children and rustics feel intensely the difference between Powers and Dominations in their private lives. They live surrounded and smothered by unintelligible fatalities; and they feel themselves brimful of suppressed powers for which they have no name. Their ignorance is in one sense wise; it anticipates the ultimate decrees of fortune in this world.
