Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India November 1932

As the sufferings of the French people under the tyrannical Goverment drove them to enact the French Revolution the extremely miserable life of the 114issians made the comunistic ideas easily acceptable to them. [...] And it is to be remembered that the longest recorded history of man such for example as that of Egypt or Assyria is but a speck by the side of the immensity of the pre-history of the human species on earth. [...] Who knows if it is not a case of man in the picture painting himself as the victor and the lion as vanquished and crouching at his feet ? There may be little doubt as to how the picture wolid ; e drawn if the brush were put in the hands of the lion instead of those of man. [...] Are we going to have the film of a long continued and arduous march— a steadily progressive advance—of the human race from the condition of the hunting pack and cave-dwelling brute to that of the present-day social and political animal ? Is it a fact that as this process has dragged itself on we have a progressive enhancement of the values of our earthly existence ? Can we say that the values of [...] An exact likeness of it is always present to the mind This is the explanation of the knowledge of the world given by the commosense man.