SCIENCE AND THE WORKING GLASS 



cull the evolutionary kernel from the idealist 

 husks. 



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XIV. SCIENCE AND THE WORKING CLASS 



The immediate result of the critical study of 

 Hegelian philosophy in Germany was a fight of 

 the Young-Hegelians against the system of their 

 master. Among these progressive thinkers, the 

 most decisive contribution toward materialist 

 monism was to come from Friedrich Koeppen, 

 Bruno Bauer, Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx and 

 Friedrich Engels. 



The strength of Koeppen lay in his understand- 

 ing of history. The study of the official writers 

 of Prussia had opened his eyes to the unrelia- 

 bility of the academic historians, whose sole 

 sources of information were diplomatic documents 

 and police reports. He made himself conspicuous 

 by a very clever and clear description of the reign 

 of terror in the French revolution, by which he 

 demonstrated his faculty of selecting the most 

 significant and characteristic factors out of a mul- 

 titude of garbled and intentionally colored tra- 

 ditions. And he distinguished himself favorably 



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