SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION 



soul." The dualist conception of " spiritual " 

 and " soul " in this statement has already been 

 appreciated at its real value in the preceding 

 lines. As for the " revealed word," to whom was 

 it revealed? Moses, the prophets, the editors of 

 the Christian gospels who wrote from two to 

 three hundred years after the death of the first 

 Christian revolutionaries some contradictory rec- 

 ords which they claimed were the revealed word 

 of Christ and his disciples, were human beings 

 like the rest of us, but with less positive knowl- 

 edge of themselves and the world. The same is 

 true of the other alleged founders of other mys- 

 tical theologies. They asked their contempo- 

 raries to believe upon their self-interested 

 assertion, that they had received some " divine 

 revelation " by some miraculous " spiritual ex- 

 perience " of their individual " soul." They had 

 no other proofs for the truth of their assertions 

 but so-called miracles which we are told by others 

 they performed. A proletarian who to-day be- 

 lieves their assertions, or those of their unthink- 

 ing followers, all of whom were either members 

 of the ruling class or mentally controlled by them, 

 surrenders his intellectual or " spiritual " life into 

 the hands of his enemies. Revelation must either 

 come to each human being individually, and in 



