SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION 



ing to reconcile science and dogmatic revelation. 



These ostentatiously legitimate protests were 

 at once re-enforced by a flood of personal abuse 

 and rancorous vilification, an art in which es- 

 pecially the theological harbingers of love and 

 peace have shown themselves as adepts. Men 

 like Darwin, Haeckel, Loeb, found out what sort 

 of a highly refined intellectuality the intimate ac- 

 quaintance with theology or bourgeois culture 

 produced in their adversaries. One has only to 

 turn over a few leaves of some of the so-called 

 refutations of Haeckel's works, written by Jesuit 

 and other confessional " scientists," in order to 

 get as pretty a collection of low billingsgate as 

 may be found anywhere in the vernacular of that 

 other product of bourgeois rule, the city slums. 



Bourgeois science is thus perpetually at war 

 with bourgeois intelligence, and university pro- 

 fessors have learned to their bitter disappoint- 

 ment that freedom of science is little respected 

 when it runs counter to freedom of trade. It is 

 no wonder that many a bourgeois scientist, shirk- 

 ing the ordeal of want in old age, has revoked 

 the scientific convictions of a lifetime and pros- 

 tituted his better self for the flesh pots of bour- 

 geois Egypt. 



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