TABLE OF CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I. Proletarian Science 5 



II. The Starting Point 10 



III. The Awakening of Philosophy ... 14 



IV. A Step Forward in Greece 20 



V. A Step Backward in Rome 28 



VI. In the Slough of Ecclesiastic Feudalism . 38 



VII. The Struggle for More Light .... 46 

 VIII. The Rehabilitation of Natural Philosophy 



in England 54 



IX. Natural Philosophy in France .... 62 

 X. A Reversion to Idealism in Germany . . 70 

 XI. In the Melting Pot of the French Revo- 

 lution 84 



XII. The Wedding of Science and Natural Phi- 

 losophy 91 



XIII. The Outcome of Classic Philosophy in Ger- 

 many 100 



XIV. Science and the Working Class .... 107 

 XV. The Offspring of Science and Natural 



Philosophy 127 



XVI. A Waif and Its Adoption 153 



XVII. Materialist Monism, the Science and " Re- 

 ligion " of the Proletariat . . . . . .175 



