Real Revolution — Page 18
18 people at the lower rungs that by being obedient to the Brahman they could rise in the scale, in time; and in this pleasant prospect the oppressed classes forgot their hardships, drugged by dreams of the good things in store for them, only if they won the approval and pleasure of the Brahman. This explains why in the face of thousands of years of racial oppression the so-called depressed classes have remained remarkably contented under the relentless dominance of the Brahman. The theory of the transmigration of soul has, in the eyes of every Shudra, limited the period of his distress and humiliation only to the phase, or life span, through which he was passing at the moment; and this bumiliation and distress was the result of his own misdeeds in his previous life. He could escape from this curse by pleasing the Brahman even now. In this frame of mind it naturally never occured to him that he should try to destroy order of which even the most valuable privileges were open to him through good deeds under the teaching of the Brahman. . In fact this theory of the transmigration of soul, as an instrument for prepetuating the racial dominance of a particular class, is the invention of some very extraordinary mind, one which deserves the highest tribute except for the fact that, unworthily, it applied itself to the mean task of preparing chains for the racial enslavement of large sections of mankind. . Basis of Roman Civilization: Law and Human Rights. The central impulse of the Roman civilization