CHAPTER II 



SOWING THE STORM 



A CAREFUL perusal of modern social lit- 

 erature cannot fail to impress the intel- 

 ligent Christian reader with the fact that 

 the root of all our social errors is to be found 

 in the dogma of materialistic evolution. 

 The philosophy of Socialism is merely an appli- 

 cation of it. Society is explained as a series 

 of inevitable evolutions that began with the low- 

 est forms of animal life and continued to the 

 present day, according to strictly economic laws. 

 Every form of modern institution, the Church in- 

 cluded, is said to have been determined mainly by 

 economic conditions. Historic materialism is the 

 name quite properly given by its authors to this 

 Socialist creed. The same dogma of materialistic 

 evolution, accepted in a wider sense, is the first 

 principle of practically all the purely secular social 

 literature of our day. It is equally popular with 

 Communist, anarchist and rationalistic capitalist. 

 So completely has this new doctrine of evolution 

 without God obsessed the mind of the present 

 generation that it is almost impossible to take up 

 a handbook of economics, sociology, history, 



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