Real Revolution — Page 2
2. BASIC PRINCIPLES. OF CORPORATE OR NATIONAL LIFE. It should be very clearly borne in mind that two principles are constantly at work in human affairs; principles without which corporate or national life cannot stand on any permanent, lasting basis. From the earliest days of Adam, there has been no movement-religious, secular, rational, intellectual, academic or practical-that has ever attained any lasting measure of success without operating on the basis of these two principles. . Need for a Message. The first of these principles is that no movement can be really successful unless it contains a new message-unless it puts before the world something which was not known to any one before. Or, at least, it should comprise something which the people in general had forgotten. For instance, associations operate successfully in this country of which the aim is to persuade people to send children to school; because in a large number of cases, here, children are not sent to school. But if an association were to be formed in. London or Berlin for this purpose, it would not prosper, since people would say that they were already sending their children to school in any case and an association for this purpose was not needed. However, if an association were to be formed in those places which emphasised the need for concentration on any parti-