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that case each individual must experience the 

 same " spiritual " miracle that others claim 

 to have experienced, and we do not need any 

 spiritual authorities and their alleged miracles. 

 Or, revelation can come only to the select, and 

 then all the rest of humanity must take their 

 " spiritual " beliefs upon the authority of others. 



If individual " spiritual " experience is to be 

 the test, then materialist monism acknowledges 

 only one revelation. That is the revelation of 

 nature, the communication between the natural 

 parts of the universe by means of their natural 

 elements. This is accessible to all without re- 

 gard to race, color, or station. It will come to 

 all who diligently seek for it. " Seek and ye 

 shall find." That is the only " true religion 

 and revelation " of all mankind. 



It might be objected that even materialist 

 monism admits that the human mind can never 

 fully exhaust the universe, and that therefore it 

 can never know everything that is in it. But in 

 the first place, this leaves room only for natural 

 unknown things, not for any supernatural 

 agencies. In the second place, even if it per- 

 mitted the theory of the supernatural, the bur- 

 den of the proof for the existence of super- 

 natural agencies would still be upon those who 



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