40 EVOLUTION, SOCIAL AND ORGANIC 



through millions of years. In this connection 

 Darwin must be named before all others." 



Again, in the preface to the "Communist 

 Manifesto" speaking of the materialistic con- 

 ception of history, he says : "This proposition, 

 in my opinion, is destined to do for history 

 what Darwin's theory has done for biology." 



And speaking at the grave-side of his 

 illustrious colleague — Marx, he said: "Just as 

 Darwin discovered the law of development in 

 organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of 

 development in human society." 



Says August Bebel, in "Woman," "Marx, 

 Darwin, Buckle, have all three, each in his 

 own way, been of the greatest significance for 

 modern development and the future form and 

 growth of human society will, to an extreme 

 degree, be shaped and guided by their teaching 

 and discoveries." 



And Kautsky in his work on ethics declares 

 that Darwin's discoveries "belong to the 

 greatest and most fruitful of the human in- 

 tellect, and enable us to develop a new critique 

 of knowledge." 



Ernest Untermann, in his latest work "Marx- 

 ian Economics," well says: "Marx discovered 

 the specific laws of social development among 

 human beings. * * * But while doing this, it 

 never occurred to him to disregard the results 



