Real Revolution — Page 22
22. FURTHER DISCUSSION OF THE FIVE TYPES. The Aryan civilization being founded on the idea of racial superiority and dominance, inspite of the great expansion it attained, it could not create any empire. Nor, again due to the same idea of racial superiority, could it create the degree of cohesion and unity which characterised the Iranian culture. The prosperity and progress of the Roman empire, on the other hand, offers a remrkable contrast, because its political principles were such that even after it had conquered a people it was able to maintain a workable relationship with them. It therefore went through a permanent process of evolution, and gave rise, in fact, to the theory of evolution itself. . The Iranian civilization laid the foundation of a a vast empire, of which the parts, within themselves, were free, yet subordinate to a chief. This characteristic is to be met with in all states which grew under the impetus of this civilization. Among the Iranians the idea of a government within another government was the outcome of their concepts in regard to Ahriman and Yazdan. . The Babylonian culture, being based on chemistry and astronomy, took special delight in construction, engineering and organization. Though this culture appears to be the oldest, and though only a few traces have survived, but whatever little has come before our eyes is really astonishing,