“Unless you become as little children, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven,” does not refer to individuals only, but also to human societies.  A man, having experienced all the miseries caused by the passions and temptations of life, must consciously return to a state of simplicity, kindness towards all, and readiness to accept what is good (the state in which children unconsciously live), and return to it with the wealth of experience and the reason of a grown-up man.  So also human society, having experienced all the miserable consequences of abandoning the law of God to obey human power, and of attempting to arrange life apart from agricultural labor, must now consciously return, with all the wealth of experience gained during the time of its aberration, from the snares of human power, and from the attempt to organize life on a basis of industrial activity, and must submit to the highest, Divine law, and to the primary work of cultivating the soil, which it had temporarily abandoned.

To consciously return from the snares of human power, and to obey the supreme law of God alone, is to admit that it is always and everywhere binding upon us.  This eternal law of God is alike in all uncorrupted Brahman, Buddhist, Confucian, Taoian, Christian, and Muslim teachings, and is incompatible with subjection to human power.

To consciously live an agricultural life is to acknowledge it to be not an accidental and temporary condition, but the life which makes it easiest for man to fulfill the will of God, and which should therefore be preferred to any other.  The Eastern nations (and among them the Russian nation) are most favorably situated for such a return to agricultural life and to conscious disobedience to power.

The Western nations have already wandered so far on the false path of changing the organization of power, and exchanging agricultural for industrial work, that such a return is difficult and requires great efforts.  But, sooner or later, the ever-increasing annoyance and instability of their position will force them to return to a reasonable and truly free life, supported by their own labor and not by the exploitation of other nations.  However alluring the external success of manufacturing industry and the showy side of such a life may be, the most penetrating thinkers among the Western nations have long pointed out how disastrous the path is that they are following, how necessary it is to reconsider and change their way, and imperative it is to return to that agricultural life which was the original form of life for all nations, and which is the ordained path making it possible for all men to live a reasonable and joyful life.

Most of the Eastern peoples, including the Russian nation, will not have to alter their lives at all.  They need only stop their advance along the false path they have just entered, become clearly conscious of the negative attitude towards power, and embrace the affectionate attitude towards husbandry that was always natural to them.  We of the Eastern nations should be thankful to fate for placing us in a position in which we can benefit by the example of the Western nations.  We benefit by it, not in the sense of imitating it, but in the sense of avoiding the mistakes of the Western nations, not doing what they have done, not travelling the disastrous path from which nations that have gone so far are already returning, or are preparing to return.

It is in this halt in the march along a false path, and in showing the possibility and inevitability of indicating and making a different path – one easier, more joyful, and more natural than the one the Western nations have travelled – that the chief and mighty meaning of the revolution now taking place in Russia lies.