MATERIALIST MONISM 



pends in the last analysis on heredity and en- 

 vironment. It is well, therefore, to learn early 

 in life whether one's nature, and that of friends 

 or dearer comrades, tends more toward evolu- 

 tion or toward reaction, and whether proper treat- 

 ment will result in the victory of evolution. 

 Otherwise there is no secure basis for future hap- 

 piness. 



An evolutionary ethic demands the abolition 

 of all economic, political, and intellectual op- 

 pression ; a reduction of the struggle for the ma- 

 terial requirements of life to a minimum by a 

 collective control of productive processes; an 

 understanding of cosmic, social, and individual 

 evolution; sexual selection of evolutionary na- 

 tures ; and a control of self in accord with the 

 requirements of universal evolution through the 

 fulfillment of the preceding conditions. 



Those who violate these demands are elim- 

 inated from the line of evolution by natural selec- 

 tion; those who fulfill them are blessed with 

 eternal salvation through nature. 



All finite things can survive in the universal 

 transformation only by conforming to this uni- 

 versal " moral law." Individual immortality of 

 the human consciousness, as to-day organized, is 

 a reactionary idea. The narrow path of eternal 



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