MATERIALIST MONISM 



losophy or theological religion into the bright 

 sunlight of materialist monism. 



XVII. MATERIALIST MONISM, THE SCIENCE 

 AND " RELIGION " OF THE PROLETARIAT. 



The world-process is an evolution through 

 revolutions. Its course appears to the monist 

 understanding of the present day as a parabolic 

 curve, coming out of the unknown infinity of 

 nature and leading into its eternal future. 



In the dim past, where the world-process be- 

 comes perceptible to human understanding, we 

 see an infinite mass of infinitesimally minute 

 ether dust whirling about in all directions. Here 

 is life with all its attributes in the earliest and 

 most primitive form conceivable to monist rea- 

 son. Consciousness and will are among these 

 attributes in the germ, just as are electricity, 

 magnetism, radiation, or such abstract qualities 

 of the abstract matter of abstract school phi- 

 losophy as indestructibility and impenetrability. 



This picture shows all there is in the universe 

 at that inconceivably remote stage of its career. 

 This is the cosmos, god, infinite, or whatever' 



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