Passage 13

In English

These basic ideas of giving equal opportunity and of distributing wealth equally amongst all human beings are being regarded as something new and novel, but this is not correct. Fifty centuries ago, , in fact, did these very same things and started these ideals. This historic figure, whom we call , really established the root of what we, today, call the new society of . This great figure in our history brought the worker, the agriculturist, and the educated person to the same level and exposed the political hypocrisy which the rulers of the country showed even at that time; and brought them to understand these concepts well. He ruled like an uncrowned king. From ancient times, we have had the sacred idea of referring to as . In the word , we have traditionally come to regard Go as representing a cow or an animal. This is not correct. In the historic times, everything that gave us prosperity and happiness we regarded as Go. We now regard Go as meaning an animal; but in reality whoever looks after the happiness of humanity and provides for the prosperity of humanity should be regarded as .