self-agrandizements

Updated: May 28, 2025

See the germs of Democracy in the yoga teaching of the Hindus, and in the Upanishads, the Bhagavat Gita, and other books. Class rule has been the mark of that second period of human evolution, and has inevitably given birth during that period to wars and self-agrandizements of classes and sections, and their consequent greeds and tyrannies over other classes and sections.

Edward Carpenter - Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning