Real Revolution — Page 13
13 supremacy remained undisputed. On the surface, the. Aryan, Ancient Iranian, Roman, and Babylonian governments were destroyed: but the fact remains that some of them are to be met with, in some form or other, to this very day, and even those who profess to hate them still carry the yoke of their dominance. Goverments which came after them represented, in greater part, only a change in personnel, while principles which underlay the systems remained unaltered. The revolt against them was no more than a revolt against the last representatives of these movements; it was not directed against the movements or cultures themselves. All that happened was that the flag of these cultures passed into other hands; the colour was given a lighter or a darker shade; the size of the flag was reduced or enlarged, but the essence behind the flag remained the same as before. . Changes which came in Europe in the wake of the Roman civilization were, really speaking, no more than an altered form of the Roman culture; while in the governments which took the place of the Iranian culture, glimpses of the early Iranain civilization are unmistakably clear. Founders of the. Aryan civilization were followed by the Budhists and the Jainees, but the Aryan stamp remained on them, deep and everlasting. Following the decline of the Babylonian empire, a succession of governments took over, one from the other. in Arabia, Syria, Egypt,