Real Revolution — Page 28
28 last for ever (as the European people assume these days that their power and glory is ever-lasting). And when you obtain dominance over any country, you destroy its civilization and culture, imposing your own institutions in its place. Jabbaar means one who humbles another and raises himself above others. One very common way of doing this, as we know, is to destroy the culture of the conquered people, and to impose upon them alien institutions, with alien ways of thought. From this passage, and the expressions used in it, it is also to be gleaned that the science of military weapons in the days of this people reached a height never attained before. Judging from the manner in which these people cut deep into the solid. body of mountains, some historians have been inclined to assume that some sort of gunpowder had come into use. If we accept this view, the above verse would mean that they had invented destructive weapons of great power which they used to conquer other nations and to impose their own culture on them. . . PHILOSOPHY OF THE WESTERN CULTURE. The modern Western civilization is based on a philosophy of materialism resting on observation and experiment. The intensity of the national spirit in the West has flowed from this philosophy as a direct result. . Pure sacrifice is possible only when man believes that over and obove this life there is another life as