SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION 



high name you wish to give it, that created itself 

 out of itself, that has no beginning and no end, 

 that has no other universe outside of itself, that 

 is omnipotent, omniscient, and above all omni- 

 natural. All these terms mainly prove the lim- 

 ited scope of the human understanding as at 

 present organized. 



The evolution of this infinite ether-universe, 

 this great nothing which is everything, follows 

 its own laws. And the general law pervading all 

 evolution is this: The positive life of a certain 

 stage generates within itself the elements of its 

 own negation. At a certain period determined 

 by the pace of evolution, these negative elements 

 come into irreconcilable conflict with the old 

 positive conditions. Then follows a period of 

 revolution, which is cosmic, geological, meteoro- 

 logical, biological, psychic, economic, or political, 

 as the case may be. The new negative forces 

 finally dominate the old positive ones and trans- 

 form them into negative ones to conform with 

 the others. By this means the negative become 

 the positive elements of a new cycle of evolution. 

 They generate in their turn the elements of their 

 own negation, which in due time bring about the 

 negation of the previous negation by a new revo- 

 lution. This results in the domination of the 



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