SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION 



lead the way towards it without the conscious 

 evolutionary organization of society. 



Along with the understanding of social and 

 cosmic evolution comes naturally an understand- 

 ing of individual and sexual evolution. Just as 

 the new social ethics demand a conscious adapta- 

 tion of social activity to a normal process of 

 cosmic evolution, so the new individual ethics de- 

 mand a conscious promotion of the natural selec- 

 tion of qualities which will be of most value in 

 social and cosmic evolution. 



Reaction and progress are struggling in each 

 individual the same as they are in every particle 

 of the universe. Naturally this struggle is re- 

 flected in the individual consciousness, or " soul." 

 Every one of us therefore feels two natures 

 struggling within him. The one drives him for- 

 ward, prompts him to do the things which will 

 develop evolutionary qualities in himself and oth- 

 ers. The other nature suggests thoughts and ac- 

 tions which arrest evolution and create disease, 

 suffering, unhappiness. 



It becomes, therefore, an imperative duty of 

 materialist monism to warn mankind against in- 

 timate relations between reactionary and evolu- 

 tionary individuals. Whether any one will give 

 heed to the voice of reaction or of evolution, de- 



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