Nine Mr. Presser had an interesting philosophy regarding the growth of a movement. Someone has an idea and gives it out. The idea goes ahead, snowballing day by day as it gathers more and more people who are enthusiastic about it. The Crusades were the outgrowth of ideas of religious zealots. Liberty, which was the idea of the Swiss, our own Colonial fathers, and the French people, led to the birth of great republics.
All religious sects are ideas of divinity.
The great political parties are ideas. The Y.M.C.A., the Salvation Army, the Boy Scouts, the Red Cross, Masonry, are ideas. At the outset most of these came individually from the inspired mind of some one man. Millions of followers were necessary to carry out these ideas. They are the bone and sinew of every great movement.