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"raw material," and the glorious world of phenomena 

 arising* from it — insensible to the inexhaustible charms 

 of Nature, and without a knowledge of her laws — they 

 stigmatize all natural science, and the culture arising from 

 it, as sinful " materialism," while really it is this which they 

 themselves exhibit in a most shocking form. Satisfactory 

 proofs of this are furnished, not only by the whole history 

 of the Catholic Popes, with their long series of crimes, but 

 also by the history of the morals of orthodoxy in every 

 form of religion. 



In order, then, to avoid in future the usual confusion of 

 this utterly objectionable Moral Materialism with our 

 Scientific Materialism, we think it necessary to call the 

 latter either Monism or Realism. The principle of this 

 Monism is the same as what Kant terms the " principle of 

 mechanism," and of which he expressly asserts, thsit without 

 it there can he no natural science at all. This principle is 

 quite inseparable from our Non-miraculous History of Crea- 

 tion, and characterizes it as opposed to the teleological belief 

 in the miracles of a Supernatural History of Creation. 



Let us now first of all glance at the most important of all 

 the supernatural histories of creation, I mean that of 

 Moses, as it has been handed down to us in the Bible, the 

 ancient document of the history and laws of the Jewish 

 people. The Mosaic history of creation, since in the first 

 chapter of Genesis it forms the introduction to the Old 

 Testament, has enjoyed, down to the present day, general 

 recognition in the whole Jewish and Christian world of 

 civilization. Its extraordinary success is explained not 

 only by its close connection with Jewish and Christian 

 doctrines, but also by the simple and natural chain of ideas 



