Excerpt from Liberty, Equality and Fraternity The dream of liberty, equality, fraternity, has taken many forms. Long before this rhetorical formula was adopted as the motto of political revolution in France, the unchanging East was convulsed by a spiritual revolution, known as Budd hism, the first of the four greatest movements of human history. Since all great movements are revolutionary in character, we may, for convenience, speak of those move ments as the four great revolutions, - the moral revolution known as Buddhism, the religious revolution, known as Christianity, the political revolution of which France was the standard bearer, and the economic revolution, in the midst of which we are struggling, and the end of which is not yet. All these great revolutionary movements have begun and con tinued in a dream of the possible, a vision of the imagination; and in all of them, behind the differences of time, place, and circumstances, the ideal has been one of liberty, equality, and fratemity, - but not the same ideal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.