THE OFFSPRING OF SCIENCE 



bourgeois professors for the use of universities 

 takes frankly issue with the metaphysical rubbish 

 of pseudo-science and espouses uncompromis- 

 ingly the cause of materialist monism. And this 

 is so for the same reason that no bourgeois pro- 

 fessor teaches the Marxian theory of surplus- 

 value and accepts its logical conclusions. The 

 same reason prevents bourgeois Darwinians from 

 accepting the facts of socialism. Darwin was 

 at least honest enough to admit that he had not 

 studied sociology and did not consider himself 

 competent to judge of the merits of Marx's 

 " Capital." But the modern Darwinians are not 

 so modest. They ridicule the socialist philosophy 

 before they have studied it. On the other hand, 

 every socialist writer of note is a convinced 

 Darwinian and Spencerian besides being a con- 

 vinced Marxian. For this reason, the socialist 

 Darwinians are alone able to reason in a con- 

 sistent materialist monist way. 



When, in 1877, Lewis H. Morgan appeared 

 with his main work, " Ancient Society," in which 

 he demonstrated the blindness of his predeces- 

 sors, Bachofen and McLennan, in the field of 

 anthropology and disclosed the true nature of 

 the primitive sexual organizations, it was the 

 socialist Engels who rescued Morgan's work 



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