SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION 



fits also the Christian socialist objectors to ma- 

 terialist monism. To any one versed in the 

 dialectic mode of reasoning it would also be a 

 sufficient refutation of the claims of Christian 

 theology on the proletarian revolution. But dia- 

 lectic logic is not one of the virtues of Christian 

 socialists, and especially in the United States they 

 are conspicuous by their lack of positive scientific 

 knowledge and their abundance of " divine wis- 

 dom." It will therefore be necessary to devote 

 a little more thought to them. 



Among some Christian socialists in this coun- 

 try, where Christian socialism is not, as a rule, 

 opposed to the proletarian revolution as it is over- 

 whelmingly in Europe, the idea is propagated 

 that the coming of socialism will mean a revival 

 of " true " religion. But if we ask them what 

 they mean by true religion, we get a medley 

 of vague replies which differ more or less ac- 

 cording to individual idiosyncrasies. 



According to materialist monism, the only 

 " true religion " is the " religion " of Natural 

 Truth. And this truth is not to be sought in 

 the unknowable and impossible nothing called the 

 supernatural. It is contained in the physical and 

 chemical elements in us and around us. And it 

 can be found with the natural means which every 



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