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the origin, functions, and changes of religion, 

 just as it does those of law — yet the very man 

 who boasts of his concurrence in this epoch- 

 making theory, using one lobe of his brain, 

 will', while using the other lobe, and with still 

 greater fervency, maintain that the Socialist 

 philosophy has nothing to do with religion at 

 all, but is an "economic" question only. The 

 left lobe knows not what the right lobe is 

 doing. Dietzgen described these Comrades as 

 "dangerous muddle-heads.'' He might have 

 omitted the adjective. A brain of this order 

 renders its possessor harmless. 



These well-meaning friends have offered a 

 great deal of advice as to how to conduct our 

 meeting without "driving people away." Yet 

 strangely enough our audience grew by leaps 

 and bounds, until from seventy-five at the 

 first lecture we are now crowding and often 

 overcrowding one of the largest and finest 

 theaters inside the loop. Meanwhile they 

 followed their own advice and saw what was 

 at the beginning a fine audience of five hundred 

 grow less and less until it is less than fifty and 

 sometimes falls below thirty. This does not 

 seem to justify the cry that the working class 

 is hungering for Christian Socialism. 



Further volumes of these lectures will carry 



