SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION 



toward human brotherhood. The use of Latin 

 in science, to which I have just alluded, illustrates 

 one phase of this leveling process very well. 

 When the proletariat of the Roman empire had 

 been defeated in its evolutionary aims, the Roman 

 church cultivated Latin as an international lan- 

 guage. And though it promoted an internation- 

 alism of the select few, yet even this gradually 

 served to antagonize the reactionary power of 

 dogmatism, since it was the most relentless foe of 

 theological dogmatism, science, which finally cul- 

 tivated Latin as an international language. And 

 this science is in our day more and more com- 

 pelled to ally itself with the class-conscious pro- 

 letariat. It is. a significant fact that all modern 

 languages, which have become more or less world- 

 languages, such as Spanish, French, and English, 

 contain many elements of Latin. And since 

 English is rapidly becoming the international lan- 

 guage of the so-called civilized world, the modern 

 proletariat will have little difficulty in assimilat- 

 ing the scant survivals of Latin which are indis- 

 pensable for an understanding of the technicali- 

 ties of modern science. 



However, in Bacon's time natural philosophy 

 tottered about rather drowsily after 1900 years of 

 sleep, and took but slight notice of the ominous 



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