A WAIF AND ITS ADOPTION 



human being has received by nature, the five 

 senses, and the brain, which is the organ of the 

 sixth sense of mankind. Without the help of 

 these, nothing can be learned, for without them 

 there is no human consciousness, no human 

 " soul." 



But this " true religion " of Natural Truth 

 never came to conscious life, until it found its 

 monistic expression in the minds of the thinkers 

 of proletarian socialism. A thing that never 

 lived before the modern proletariat generated it 

 cannot be " revived " by its victory. It can 

 only be brought to full life by it. As for any 

 religion based on mystical beliefs, it will not be 

 revived, any more than the Mosaic ideas of geog- 

 raphy and astronomy. It will be defeated by the 

 overwhelming and ever growing control of the 

 human mind over the other parts of nature. To 

 the extent that science compels nature to yield 

 one of its mysteries after another, the basis of 

 mystical religion and authoritative revelation 

 disintegrates, and the science of life comes into 

 its own. 



It is often denied that theological religion is 

 a matter of belief upon authorities. It is claimed 

 that it is rather a matter of belief upon " a re- 

 vealed word and the spiritual experience of the 



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