THE OFFSPRING OF SCIENCE 



permit him to arrive at a dialectic solution. He 

 could not reconcile his biological and social ethics 

 with his idea of the coming slavery. 



The same criticism applies to Haeckel, who in 

 many respects equals Spencer' in his conception 

 of evolution. Haeckel's monism is not free from 

 class bias and metaphysical vestiges. He inter- 

 preted the struggle for existence with regard to 

 man as an aristocratic principle, resulting in the 

 selection of "the best," and declared that the 

 " crazy ideas " of the socialists had nothing to 

 do with Darwinism. Forty years of socialist lit- 

 erature and activity in Germany have made little 

 change in his opinions on this point. He has 

 never realized that the struggle of man against 

 nature is accompanied by the struggle of eco- 

 nomic classes, and that the modern class-struggle 

 between the working class and the capitalist class 

 is a democratic principle, resulting in the cr -uri- 

 zation of a new social environment, in \v 1 

 struggle of classes shall be eliminated, and man 

 unite all his social and individual forces for the 

 struggle against nature. In his ethics he is as 

 vague as Spencer, unab 1 e to reconcile his bin 

 ical understanding of the physical bisi? ' 

 with his views on sociology. 



The logical result of this class bias is that 



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