Real Revolution — Page 19
19 sprang from the importance it attached to law and hun. an rights. The founders of this culture were the people who gave the earliest recognition to the idea of human rights: they built up a system of life in which to one could be punished except by law, and they reduced political activity thereby to a sort of order. . The right to govern also was made dependent on certain principles, this being the reason why Roman. Law even today is studied carefully by legislatures and legal luminaries all over the wor!d. . Message of the Iranian Civilization :. Morality and Politics. The Iranian civilization was founded on ethical and political concepts, this being the reason why according to the ancient Iranian point of view it was impossible that a pure Being like God should soil His hands by creating an impure thing like sin. They held, therefore, that there were two Gods: one the God of. Cood, and the other the God of Evil. In other words, they invested ethics and morality with such supreme im portance that it became impossible for them to artribute the creation of an immoral and unethical thing to God. . Put since they could not run away from the fact that sin existed in the world, they got out of the difficulty involved in their basic idea by assuming that the creator of sin was some being other than the supreme deity, who deserved to be hated rather than worshipped.