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The definition of power is relative to the individual, most likely. I suppose he does not mean electricity.

Power is capacity and the ability to do things. Without it, or at least a belief that one has it, paralysis results.

He was addressing semi-religious theories (Kant-Plato-Schopenhauer) as well as the new consciousness of Darwinism or something like it.

Why do organisms live? To act; this requires power. All life seeks not merely to survive, but to have capacity in that role.

I think it would probably be easier to understand in the original German, if anyone spoke the German of that era.