Real Revolution — Page 12
12 strictly limited. One of these, which sprang up in India, is called the Aryan Movement. It did not remain confined to India alone, but also threw its influence over Europe. The second, which rose in the West, was the movement of the Roman civilization. The third, born in Central Asia and parts of China, was the Iranian Movement, as I call it. The fourth, which rose in Western Asia and Africa, I call the Babylonian Movement; and the fifth is that of the modern civilization, the most universal of all, generally known as Western. culture. new civilizaFrom world history it appears that in the field of secular progress these are the most imp tant and universal movements. At the back of all was a new philosophy of life, a tion. They by no means meant only this that certain nations, at one period of their history, just took up the sword and conquered adjoining countries: the founders of these movements destroyed the existing orders and replaced them with new ones, or they opened the door to new branches of knowledge. Though the founders of these movements lost their political power after a time, and their place was taken by some other nations, but even those who defeated and destroyed them could by no means free themselves from the influence of their ideas and their philosophy. Their political power was broken, but their intellectual