ABSTRACT
The Social Differentiation of Power. Wills, for the purposes of Politics, may be treated as units, but they are equal neither in potential energy nor in actual power. One man is not as another physically, mentally, or morally.I He need not be inferior in value; it is beyond our province to discuss such a question here. But he is not equivalent in use, in the sense that any man is equally good with another in performing any work. According to the degree of excellence required in the work, whether of strength, intelligence, or judgment, there will be a differentiation of ability made apparent between man and man relative to the performance of this task. The higher the grade of civilization, the greater will be the economic differentiation between men as to work performed and the greater the specialization of labour and ability. And what is true of the economic world is also true of the political world, in which the position the individual is able to assume in the scheme of social relationships will be dependent upon differences of skill and of energy of will.
