Real Revolution — Page 30
30 or the general is dismissed as unimportant or absurd. . For instance the Greek system of medicine traces back all ailments to what are called the four basic humours of the human body, and diagnoses a disease on the basis of the medical principles of this system. But in the modern medical science the physician proceeds from sympto. ns to the ailment, and treats it accordingly, without seeing the necessity of linking up all diseases into a particular chain. . As far as the known history of the human race is concerned, these are the five main movements which have influenced the growth of social institutions and development of the human mind. Whatever other forms of government or philosophies have risen in the world, will, in the last analysis, be found to be their offshoots, or to have been influenced by them. If there are cultures anywhere which appear to be different, it will be found on a closer study that the diference lies only in some details: certain points of view, after detaching themselves from the parent system, have begun to appear as if they were totally different, while others, with a slight variation, have developed only as fresh interpretation of these philosophies or as a combination of more than one. . CAUSES OF SUCCESS. The primary cause of the success of these movements was the fact that they were built round the