The reason is plain. The sheep are aware of their weakness, the lion of its strength. The consciousness of strength in the latter overpowers the numerical strength of the former. By analogy, may we not deduce that 'soul force' or 'spirit force' may not after all be a mere figment of imagination but a reality' When Galileo declared that the earth was round like a ball and turned on its axis, he was ridiculed as a visionary and a dreamer and was greeted with abuse. But today we know that Galileo was right, and it was his opponents, who believed the earth to be stationary and flat like a dish, that were living in the cloudland of their ignorance.
Modern education tends to turn our eyes away from the spirit.
We are told that the revolution in Japan was brought about not through thousands of men, but at the head of it were only 12 men who fired the zeal of fifty-five. And probably amongst these 12, was only one man who was the author of the whole plan. If a true beginning is made, the rest is simple. We, therefore, arrive at the astonishing conclusion that one true man is enough for any reform, no matter how impossible it may appear in the beginning. It is depth more than the width that is wanted.